Lanesborough Investment & Asset Management

Justin Wood B Land Ec MRICS

Justin is a Chartered Surveyor with 30 years’ experience in property investment, asset management and portfolio strategy, working with private investors, high-net-worth families and family offices across the UK, Europe, Kenya, the Middle East and Australia.

Before founding LIAM, Justin held Director and Board-level roles with responsibility for investment and asset management strategy across more than 100 UK assets and a £200m European portfolio.

His experience spans the entire investment lifecycle, strategy formulation, sourcing and qualifying opportunities, acquisition, financing, lease management, repositioning, turnaround, disposal and reinvestment.

Justin has a proven track record of delivering value-add outcomes, including acquiring well over £100 million of UK properties for private clients, executing UK property business plans and disposals totalling more than £400 million and delivering measurable income and capital growth for investors.

He brings a hands-on, investor-aligned approach to every mandate, supported by a deep network of market contacts and specialist advisors built over three decades in the sector.

Henry Browne MSc

Henry has spent more than 15 years representing Ultra High Net Worth individuals, family offices and institutional clients in property, at Savills and JLL. He holds an MSc in Real Estate and has worked across both the transactional and asset management sides of the market, which means he advises owners on the whole life of an asset rather than only the point of sale.

As co-founder of LIAM, Henry leads on origination, client relationships and execution. He draws on a carefully built network, a black book cultivated over years of industry involvement, to source opportunities and qualify them against each client's objectives, then drives mandates through execution to completion, coordinating legal, finance and agency workstreams and staying close to owners across the full hold rather than only at the transaction. He acts for institutional banks, lenders and capital partners as well as private clients, and that breadth across private wealth and institutional capital gives LIAM direct access to stock, buyers and lenders that others cannot.

His approach is built on discretion, judgement and the long-term interest of the client. He understands the exacting expectations of a discerning clientele, and it shows in the repeat business and durable relationships he has built across cycles, clients who return because the advice serves their position, not the deal.

Nicholas Shaw DipFA

Nicholas is a qualified wealth manager with close to 20 years advising on residential and commercial property, having led teams at Savills and Knight Frank and built a deep Prime Central London network. He has advised Ultra High Net Worth families, institutional and corporate clients across a wide range of transaction values.

As co-founder of LIAM, Nicholas leads mandates that combine asset advice with capital, from family-office portfolio disposals and institutional estate strategy through to off-market acquisitions secured at a discount. Through Lanesborough Capital he originates and structures debt across senior, bridging and development finance, so that financing is built into an asset’s business plan from the outset rather than bolted on afterwards.

His wealth management background means he reads every mandate through an investor’s lens: who holds the asset, at what return, and how the capital structure supports the hold. For LIAM’s clients, the key asset management decisions, refinancing, repositioning and timing are taken with a full view of both the property and the money behind it.

Marc Ahearne CeMAP

Marc has almost 40 years in property finance, capital structuring and debt advisory across the residential, commercial and development sectors. He arranges funding for Ultra High Net Worth individuals, family offices and corporate clients, senior debt, bridging, development and probate finance — with particular strength in the complex, cross-border and structured situations most brokers cannot place.

His mandates regularly involve offshore ownership, trust structures and complex tax residency, financing everything from prime residential portfolios and branded hotels to development schemes and estates in probate. His lender relationships span private banks, corporate lenders and specialist development funders.

Within LIAM, Marc’s role as a co-founder is to ensure capital is never the constraint on a business plan. Whether an asset needs acquisition finance, a refinancing to release value mid-hold, or development funding to execute a repositioning, he sources and structures the debt to fit the strategy and the ownership behind it, quickly, and with certainty of delivery.