Specialist funding relationship manager Jas Mall brings significant experience across invoice finance and commercial funding. Following roles with Independent Growth Finance, Bibby Financial Services and RBS Invoice Finance, he has a strong track record of supporting SMEs through complex funding challenges.
Ed Brown also joins Leonard Curtis as funding relationship manager. Having spent four years at Swoop, he has developed deep expertise in helping businesses to access a broad range of funding solutions and will focus on building relationships and growing the firm's presence across the region.
Together, the team will be based within the city’s Colmore Business District and will focus on connecting businesses with the right funding and advisory solutions, drawing on the firm’s extensive lender and introducer network and working in collaboration with colleagues across restructuring, legal and advisory.
Becky Owen, head of Funding at Leonard Curtis, said: "Birmingham is a strategically important market for us and this launch reflects our ambition to expand nationally supporting local businesses, introducers and lenders.
"Alison, Jas and Ed bring complementary strengths and real market presence to the region. Alongside our existing Birmingham team, they are well placed to make a meaningful difference to businesses across the Midlands."
Conrad Beighton, director and head of Midlands at Leonard Curtis, said: “I’m pleased to welcome Alison, Jas and Ed to the team - their combined expertise strengthens our funding and advisory capabilities across the Midlands and reinforces our commitment to providing SMEs with the advice, access to funding and innovative solutions they need to achieve sustainable growth.”
