Neil Morgan - Director and Head of Public
Houses
Neil has been involved in the property market
since 1982 and joined Christie + Co in 1994. Developing specific
experience in the pub, restaurant, leisure and development sectors,
Neil also spent five years running the Winchester office, before
moving to London in April 2004 to head up the Corporate Pubs team.
He now has national responsibility for Christie + Co’s
activities in both the pub and restaurant sectors.
Over the past five years, Neil has been responsible for the
acquisition and expansion of a number of small private/regional pub
companies. He has also project managed a number of major pub
company disposals and acquisitions throughout the UK and assisted
in key strategic estate reviews.
Neil was instrumental in managing and concluding one of Christie
+ Co’s most high profile campaigns when, in August 2007, the
company successfully completed the letting of 637 pubs for Punch
Taverns, just 15 months after receiving the instruction to do
so.
neil.morgan@christie.com
Bond, Darren - Director and Head of Valuation
Services
Darren joined Christie + Co’s Birmingham
office as a valuer in 2001 and moved to Leeds in 2004 as Valuation
Services Manager. He went on to be appointed as the Location
Manager of the Leeds office in 2005 before making the move to
London in 2007 to take up the position of national head of
Valuation Services.
During his time at Christie + Co, he has worked on a variety of
valuation projects on a local, regional and national scale, gaining
substantial experience across all six of our trading sectors.
Darren studied for a degree in Urban Land Economics in Sheffield
and is an MRICS qualified Chartered Surveyor.
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Chaplin, Simon - Director
Simon was made a Director of Christie + Co in 2005 and moved to the Corporate Division to develop our coverage of the southern area. With over 20 years' experience in the pub and restaurant market Simon now heads our Corporate Restaurant division, based out of London, working with operators such as Gondola, Tragus, Davys Wine Bars and Little Chef.
The most recent activity has been the disposal of Sausage & Mash cafes, a chain of 6 sites in around central London.
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Day, Chris – Managing Director
Chris Day joined Christie + Co in 1985 and,
having worked in the Manchester, Birmingham and London Offices, was
appointed Managing Director in 1993. He has overall responsibility
for all Christie + Co's specialist transactional and advisory
activities. Chris has overseen the successful expansion of Christie
+ Co into a truly pan European firm, which currently has 15 offices
in the UK and 11 International offices.
Based in the London office, Chris has particular responsibility
for our international operations and he travels regularly. He
specialises in the sale and valuation of hotels, public houses and
restaurants and has led teams handling numerous disposal and
valuation assignments for many high profile clients.
Chris commenced his career in the property profession in 1975,
qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 1980. In recent years he was
Chairman of the Central London Branch of the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors, and was also a member of the Surveyors Panel
advising the British Association of Hotel Accountants on the
measurement of the Tangible Fixed Assets for the Hotel
industry.
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Fitzgerald, Barry - Negotiator
Barry joined Christie + Co in 2007 after working in residential agency in London for the previous 9 years. Initially he worked within the corporate restaurants team but moved to our Epsom office in 2008 with responsibility for bars & restaurants inside the M25. Barry is now based from our Victoria office and is responsible for bars & restaurants agency in London as part of our London Bars & Restaurants Team. Barry has worked on disposals projects for Punch Taverns, Admiral Taverns and Marstons.
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Hughes, Simon – UK Managing Director
Having started his career in the hotel
industry, Simon Hughes moved into the property sector more than 20
years ago and joined Christie + Co in 1987. Originally employed as
a hotel sector specialist, Simon has worked with a broad range of
clients over the years — from independent hotel owners
through to some of the most recognisable operators, including
Hilton, Whitbread and Marston Hotels.
Initially based in the Nottingham office, Simon subsequently
spent periods working in the Glasgow, Bristol and London offices,
where he developed a full understanding of Christie + Co’s
service offerings and a broad knowledge of all our specialist
sectors. Having successfully managed the London operation for a
number of years, he was appointed UK Managing Director in 2005.
Simon now has overall responsibility for Christie + Co’s
full range of agency and advisory services activity across the
network of 15 regional offices. He is also responsible for
directing the activities of Christie + Co’s sister company
Christie Finance. Simon continues to take an active role in client
projects, most recently focusing on the development of business in
the retail sector, where he has been instrumental in Christie +
Co’s expansion into the forecourt and pharmacy markets.
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Jenkins, Anthony - Associate Director, Corporate
Pubs
Anthony initially worked for Christie + Co in the early 1990s based in our Birmingham office and dealing with pubs in the West Midlands on behalf of private clients. He rejoined the company in 2006 after dealing with licensed property with another firm of surveyors as well as a short spell in the wines and spirits industry.
Anthony now works closely with our Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Ipswich and Enfield offices where he is responsible for managing relationships with Christie + Co’s corporate clients. In addition Anthony has been responsible for the acquisition and disposal programmes for a number of national and regional pub companies including Pubfolio, Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company, Greene King and Tattershall Castle Group. Other clients include British Waterways, Intertain Limited and McManus Pub Co. In addition, he has advised and worked for the administrators of GRS Inns and Regent Inns.
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Moffit, Noel - Director
Noel, a Chartered Surveyor, has been Involved
in the valuation and agency of licensed premises since 1996,
initially in our Birmingham Office. He re-joined Christie + Co in
2002, working in the northern area, responsible for our corporate
pub work out of our Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and
Birmingham Offices.
Noel’s primary roles have focused on the
strategic reviews of portfolios for the likes of Marston's, Unique,
Whitbread and S&N Retail. He is also actively involved in
assisting clients who own sites which are suitable for conversion
or redevelopment for higher alternative use.
Noel is also instrumental in the daily
management and regular portfolio reviews of group disposals for
Enterprise Inns, Admiral Taverns and Wolverhampton & Dudley
Breweries.
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Owens, Stephen - Head of Rent Reviews
Stephen Owens joined Christie + Co in January
2008 as Head of Rent Reviews, based at the Leeds office. Stephen
joined from a national specialist firm of licensed property
surveyors where he was Divisional Director based at the Leeds
office, responsible for professional valuation matters. Stephen has
over 25 years experience in the licensed property sector, including
working for Yates Group PLC as Head of Acquisitions and Property,
together with various estate management and acquisition roles with
Joshua Tetley & Son, Allied Domecq Retailing and John Smiths
Tadcaster Brewery. Stephen is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and Associate Member of the Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators and on the RICS Panel of Arbitrators and
Panel of Independent Experts, who are called upon to resolve rent
review disputes.
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Patrick, Jon - Director and Head of Leisure &
Development
Jon joined Christie + Co in 1984 and has extensive experience of the sale and valuation of leisure businesses, together with the development of leisure and hospitality property involving both solus and mixed-use schemes. He has worked in our Leeds, Newcastle and London Offices, being instrumental in the development of our corporate pubs business in the early 1990s.
In 1995 Jon established Christie + Co’s Leisure and Development business working throughout the UK with numerous operators, developers and investors including the likes of Academy Leisure, Aprirose, Berkeley Group, Esporta, Fitness4Less, FX Leisure, GL-14 Group, Genr8, Grantside Developments, Harrison Developments, Leeds City Council, Moto Hospitality, Neptune Developments, Nexum, Nuffield Health, Opus Land, Oxford Hospitality, Rushbond Group, St Modwen, Starboard Hotels and Tesco.
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Robinson, Andrew - Negotiator
Andrew has over 29 years of experience working across the licensed and hotel property sectors and started his career in commercial property with Christie + Co in 1981 when he joined our London-based Corporate Hospitality team. Five years later, he left to form the Business Sales Group (BSG), which specialised in acquisitions and valuation work across the pub sector for a number of high-profile clients including Whitbread and JD Wetherspoon.
Prior to rejoining Christie + Co Andrew was working in a consultancy role for Intrinsic. Andrew focuses on acquisition opportunities across pub freehold estates, aiding the expansion targets of national pub companies, whilst also monitoring alternative-use development openings for leading retail operators.
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Rugg, David - Chairman
David joined Christie + Co in 1972 and was
Managing Director prior to the formation of Christie Group in 1985
when he was appointed Group Managing Director and later Chief
Executive. David is Chairman of Christie + Co and has many
years’ experience in the sale and valuation of businesses. In
particular, he has extensive experience of the hotel sector
worldwide.
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Sheldon, Brian - Director
Brian joined Christie + Co in September 1991 having previously been involved in both the property and banking sectors. Being based form the Glasgow office for the past 19 years servicing both private and corporate clients concentrating primarily on projects within the Licensed Sectors- namely Bars, Restaurants and Hotels. Clients include, Belhaven Brewers, Punch Taverns, McLay Inns, Rosemount Taverns having acted in both an acquisition and in more recent times a disposal basis. One of his more notable deals was the acquisition of LAW Property Group on behalf of Pubmaster (now Punch Taverns) in 2003.
Brian was made a Director of Christie + Co in December 2002 and on September 2007 was appointed Agency Director for Scotland. Working across Christie + Co’s offices in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, Brian overseas the Agency activity across all sectors, with particular emphasis on the development of our licensed business.
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Shorthouse, James - Director
James joined Christie + Co in 1991 and moved to the London office in 1999. He works closely with Neil Morgan to provide transactional and strategic advisory services to major clients across the Pubs, Bars and Restaurant sector and heads up the Corporate Valuation Team which specialises in the appraisal and valuation of medium and large portfolios and high value single assets.
The Team act for leading companies including Enterprise Inns, Punch, Marstons and Paramount Restaurants as well as advising UK and international banks and investors.
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Stansmore, Martin - Associate Director
Martin joined Christie + Co’s Corporate
Pub Team in January 2008.
Martin works closely with the locally based pub colleagues in
the Christie + Co Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle offices. Martin
is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with
the local Christie + Co offices and the regional and national pub
companies operating across the North East and North West.
Before joining Christie + Co, Martin worked for Scottish &
Newcastle Pub Enterprises as an Acquisitions Manager, prior to
which he was employed by a leading firm of specialist licensed
surveyors and valuer’s. Martin is also an experienced agent
and has worked on a variety of major letting campaigns and
disposals projects on a local, regional and national scale..
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Taylor, Peter - Director
Peter qualified as an Associate of the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1975 and has specialised in
licensed property since 1977. He originally joined Christie + Co in
1996 based at the Milton Keynes Office, having previously worked
for companies such as Allied Breweries, Grand Metropolitan Estates
and Erdman Lewis. Peter re-joined Christie + Co in 2004 to be based
in our London Office undertaking valuations, rent reviews and lease
renewals, principally on behalf of corporate clients in connection
with public houses, restaurants and hotels.
In 1995 Peter was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors. In 2001, Peter attained a Post Graduate
Diploma in Arbitration from the College of Estate Management and is
a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is on the
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' Panel of Arbitrators and
Panel of Independent Expert and is appointed in these capacities to
resolve rent review disputes.
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Wallace, Katie - Negotiator
Katie Wallace has more than eight years’
experience in the property sector. She joined Christie + Co in July
2006 to work as a negotiator in the London bars and restaurants
team. Working closely with her colleagues in Corporate Pubs and
Restaurants, Katie primarily focuses on independent pub, bar and
restaurant clients in Central London.
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