Peter provides specialist corporate finance and strategic advice with a focus on the Education sector.  He works alongside his clients on wide range of areas covering debt advice, strategic project delivery and transaction structuring with a particular focus on student residences transactions.

He has led and managed a number of complex student residences partnership procurements including transactions at the University of Essex, University of Brighton and the University of York. He has also assisted clients through the process of renegotiating and refinancing these types of projects – extracting further value for the Universities and has extensive experience in valuing and purchasing these types of assets.

Peter has helped clients raise or refinance substantial sums through the debt markets with a particular focus on Revolving Credit Facilities and Private Placements. In recent years, he has also led the advice on the difficult process of amending covenants, restructuring loans and refinancing various facilities for several Higher Education institutions.

Peter started his professional career over 20 years ago working in Infrastructure finance focussing on the PFI/PPP sectors including health and education and his experience includes primary bidding, refinancing/restructuring, equity acquisitions/disposals in the secondary market and fund management.

Peter is a CFA Charterholder with an MA (Hons) in Economics and Economic history from the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked at KPMG and in M&A at Lazard.