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David Penston is a London-based property banker with a strong track record in both property and corporate banking. David is a highly experienced specialist in Structured Property Finance.

Alistair is a partner in the Real Estate group and head of Planning & Environment. He works closely with clients and advises on the range of planning and environmental issues that need to be addressed in obtaining planning permission and developing land.

Craig joined Savills at the turn of the millennium to create the Healthcare division. Prior to that, he spent 16 years at Christie & Co where he was a main board director and their head of Corporate Healthcare team. Craig's main focus is business and property transactional work across the healthcare sector this includes portfolios, individual assets, C2 property and land and development. Outside of work, Craig's hobbies include watching his two sons play rugby, touring Europe and beyond on Adventure motorcycles with two Savills colleagues.

Ion Fletcher is the Director of Finance and Commercial Policy at the British Property Federation (BPF).  He is responsible for developing the UK real estate industry’s response to policy decisions affecting real estate businesses from a tax, finance and commercial perspective.  Ion was previously a tax advisor in Ernst & Young’s real estate group and has a degree in Management Sciences from the University of Warwick.

Over the past twenty years, David Rees has established a reputation as a key thinker, promoter, and conference speaker on the subject of Capital Allowances tax reliefs in the UK’s commercial property sector. David was a pivotal figure in the original Capital Allowances specialists Crosher & James and following their merger with Davis Langdon - at that time the UK’s largest cost management practice - ran their south of England tax team for over ten years. In 2010 the global US consultancy AECOM took over Davis Langdon and David became a national business development director.

James joined Masthaven after 29 years at specialist development finance operator Regentsmead. During his tenure as Chief Executive, he created the Short-Term Lending department and grew the business to become one of the leading privately owned development finance businesses in the market. James is passionate about property and now has over 30 years of property and development finance experience.