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Christopher Stainforth

Founder & Chairman

LMG Logistics

London, UK

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Christopher Stainforth’s Biography

Christopher Stainforth is an Investment Banker with over 40 years of experience in the City.

Christopher is Founder and Chairman of LMG Logistics, a company that facilitates lease extensions for older homeowners with short leases using equity release.

He is also Founder and Chairman of Asset Time Invest, a real estate business that develops student accommodation, mainly in Spain. In addition, he is Founder and Director of AuRER, a minerals company that processes nanoparticles of gold sourced from its own property in the USA.

During his career, Christopher has advised hundreds of businesses on a broad range of transactions across the whole spectrum of industrial and financial sectors. He has helped to create a number of companies and has been Chairman or Director of 20 or more small to medium-sized firms. Many of these have had to be nursed through either a recovery or a growth phase and the majority were either quoted or backed by institutional investors.

Christopher was Chief Executive of Durlacher plc between 2002 and 2004, where he rescued and turned the firm around to...
Christopher Stainforth is an Investment Banker with over 40 years of experience in the City.

Christopher is Founder and Chairman of LMG Logistics, a company that facilitates lease extensions for older homeowners with short leases using equity release.

He is also Founder and Chairman of Asset Time Invest, a real estate business that develops student accommodation, mainly in Spain. In addition, he is Founder and Director of AuRER, a minerals company that processes nanoparticles of gold sourced from its own property in the USA.

During his career, Christopher has advised hundreds of businesses on a broad range of transactions across the whole spectrum of industrial and financial sectors. He has helped to create a number of companies and has been Chairman or Director of 20 or more small to medium-sized firms. Many of these have had to be nursed through either a recovery or a growth phase and the majority were either quoted or backed by institutional investors.

Christopher was Chief Executive of Durlacher plc between 2002 and 2004, where he rescued and turned the firm around to create an investment bank catering to small and mid-cap corporations.

He served seven years with Guinness Mahon as Head of Corporate Finance until 1999, after spending six years at UBS Phillips & Drew as Managing Director of UK Corporate Finance.

In his early career, Christopher qualified as a chartered accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG) where he worked for eight years before joining Henry Schroder Wagg Ltd to work on Corporate Finance.
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Service to pay for lease extension with lifetime mortgage launched

Christopher Stainforth is founder and Chairman of LMG Logistics which today launched its Lifetime Mortgage Gateway service.

Christopher Stainforth’s Background

LMG Logistics
Founder & Chairman
2015 - Present
London, UK
In January 2022 LMG Logistics launched the Lifetime Mortgage Gateway (LMG), a new service (the first of its kind) designed to enable older homeowners trapped with short leases to obtain lease extensions.
Asset Time Invest Ltd
Founder & Chairman
2017 - Present
London, UK
Asset Time Invest creates real estate assets in the UK and western Europe on behalf of funds and investor groups across all sectors.
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Current Board Positions

The Chapels Royal Foundation, HM Tower of London
Trustee
2017 - Present
London, UK
The Chapels as places of worship are governed by The HM Tower of London Chapels Royal Foundation. The Foundation was constituted jointly by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of The Queen, the Constable of the Tower of London and the Bishop of London in his capacity as Dean of the Chapels Royal.

Previous Board Positions

Whitman Howard
Adviser
2013 - 2015
London, UK
Whitman Howard is a business which focuses on connecting entrepreneurs with smart capital.
IPR Events
Director
2011 - 2018
London, UK
IPR Events London Ltd create and organise intelligent B2B events, delivering unique platforms for dynamic networking, knowledge exchange, open debates and genuine new business for many world leading brands.
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Christopher Stainforth’s Education

Eton College
1966 - 1970