Christopher Stainforth

Founder & Chairman

LMG Logistics

London, UK

Darcy Stacom

CBRE Group Inc

Sloane Stephens

Christopher Stainforth’s Biography

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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. moreless

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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.

Equity release-funded lease extension service launches

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.

AuRER

Founder & Director

2013 - Present

London, UK

AuRER is a minerals processing business that processes nanoparticles of gold from its own property in the USA.

Libertas Partners LLP

Chairman

2011 - 2013

London, UK

Libertas Partners is the successor business to the London operations of the former Libertas Capital Group, acquired by its management from administrators in 2009. They are an AIM Nomad and broker, focusing on private and public financings for small and mid-cap international businesses.

Ermgassen & Co

Director

2008 - 2011

London, UK

Ermgassen & Co is a leading independent European investment banking firm focused on cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance advisory services.

Saphire Finance

Partner

2004 - 2008

London, UK

Saphire Finance Llp was a specialist international corporate finance firm, offering merger & acquisition, private placement and restructuring advisory services.

Durlacher Plc (latterly Panmure Gordon & Co)

Chief Executive

2002 - 2004

London, UK

Durlacher Corporation Plc, a stockbroker and finance house, was acquired by Panmure Gordon & Co in 2005.

Ermgassen & Co

Director

1999 - 2002

London, UK

Guinness Mahon Limited (latterly Investec)

Head of Corporate Finance

1992 - 1999

London, UK

Guinness Mahon was a British investment banking group, acquired by Investec in 1998.

Phillips & Drew (latterly UBS)

Managing Director, UK Corporate Finance

1982 - 1989

London, UK

Phillips & Drew was a large London-based stockbroking firm, which was acquired by the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1985.

J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co Limited

Corporate Finance

1980 - 1982

London, UK

Schroders, operating from 29 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, is a world-class asset management company.

Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (latterly KPMG)

FCA Qualified

1972 - 1980

London, UK

Whilst at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co, Christopher also spent 3 years in the Middle East as a Partner.

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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.