JC Rathbone and Laxfield Capital are to launch a new venture offering a broad range of debt advisory services.
JCRA Laxfield will bring together Laxfield’s expertise advising borrowers and lenders with JC Rathbone’s strength in risk management and hedging in an attempt to provide a one-stop-shop for debt advisory.
The new venture will work alongside Laxfield and JC Rathbone’s existing businesses, which will remain separate.
Emma Huepfl, head of capital management at Laxfield Capital, said: “In the last 12 months we have been approached by borrowers looking for help to guide them through the new financing market.
“When we started talking to JCRA we came up with the idea of collaborating and bringing the two skill sets together in a platform that would allow us both to offer advice as appropriate.”
The new venture is designed to help both firms attract a wider range of international clients.
“The push from global capital into European real estate is not abating and we see a lot of those investors needing help in the local markets on the financing side, and we think this is going to be a big growing area for us,” said Huepfl.
