CAPITAL
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Capital as a strategic capability
For lenders, investment platforms, real-estate businesses and other capital-dependent models, funding is not a finance workstream sitting beside the strategy. It is often the core constraint on growth—and the capital structure can determine the economics, resilience and value of the entire business.
Institutional capital solutions
The capital itself
The range of institutional structures available, matched to what the business actually needs.
Warehouse and forward-flow facilities
Structured facilities that let a platform originate and fund at scale, not asset by asset.
Senior, mezzanine and structured credit
Layered debt structures matched to risk, return and control requirements.
Private-credit and bank facilities
Access to private-credit funds, real estate credit platforms and traditional bank lenders.
Asset-backed, deployment and real-estate portfolio capital
Capital secured against real assets and live deployment pipelines.
Get institutionally ready
Making the business genuinely fundable before it goes anywhere near a lender or investor.
Public-sector-backed and Government-supported capital
Including facilities from Government-backed bodies such as the British Business Bank.
Capital strategy and funding readiness
Turning a growth plan into a proposition institutional capital can underwrite.
Lender and investor positioning
Framing the opportunity in the language an investment committee expects.
Institutional materials, model and financial proposition
Data room, financial model, track record materials and risk framework, built to institutional standard.
Run the process
Running a disciplined process from first conversation through to signed terms.
Market mapping and disciplined competitive processes
Approaching a curated set of asset managers, credit funds, banks and family offices, not a broad marketing exercise.
Term-sheet assessment, negotiation and execution
Negotiating commitment size, structure, approval rights, fees and governance, not just price.
Refinancing and long-term capital optimisation
Reviewing and improving the capital stack as the business scales.
Growth equity and strategic investment, where appropriate
Considered only where it genuinely serves the capital strategy.
More than introductions
Understands both sides of the table.
Growth Strategy prepares the business, sharpens the capital proposition, identifies the right capital universe, creates competitive tension, supports diligence and negotiates for a partner and structure capable of scaling. Introductions are a means—not the value proposition.
This isn’t a placement or brokerage model. It’s the perspective of someone who has raised the capital himself, managed the funder relationships, deployed it, and reported against it — not simply made introductions.
POSITION
Sharpen the proposition.
Turning the business’s track record and pipeline into an institutional-grade capital narrative: why this business, why now, why this capital partner.
APPROACH
Run a curated, competitive process.
Warm, senior-level introductions to a curated set of private-credit funds, real estate credit platforms, banks, asset managers and family offices — never cold, broad distribution.
PREPARE
Build institutional-grade materials.
Data room, financial model, track record materials and risk framework, ready for real diligence.
Proof, not promises
£2bn
institutional capital raised
£1bn
of property projects funded, as the operator
Selected Outcomes
Capital secured, at scale.
of property projects funded
As founder and former CEO of CrowdProperty, Mike secured £2bn of institutional capital as an operator and adviser and built a platform that funded £1bn of property projects. This borrower-side experience creates a practical understanding of what institutional funders require before, during and after closing.
That experience now informs work with lenders, investment platforms and real-estate businesses preparing for their own institutional capital raises.
Mike is currently advising on mandates that have collectively received £1.6bn in term sheets — live, direct insight into institutional appetite, pricing and structure, not observations from the sidelines.
£2bn capital secured
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Borrower-side experience
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Institutional relationships
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