Company

• Overview
• History and Track Record
• The Case for the Brazil
  Retail Sector
• Business Strategy
• Management
• Board
• Senior Management
• Consultants
• Corporate Governance and Board Committees
• Constitutional Documents

Neil Varnham has 33 years of shopping mall experience, having started his career with Henderson Global Investors in 1975 and from where he retired in 2009. Throughout his career, Neil has utilised his experience to source deals and negotiate approximately €10 billion of key investment transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, development initiatives and the creation of joint venture platforms across eleven countries. This included the launch, fundraising, investment and management of more than six large retail property funds, such as the UK Shopping Centre Fund and the UK Outlet Mall Fund. Neil was one of three main directors leading the Henderson property business with primary responsibility for overall strategy in addition to being head of Distribution and Business Development. In this latter role he was responsible for capital raising, transaction structuring and product development in the creation of new funds in Europe and South America together with equity raising across Australia, Europe and North America. He is currently head of retail funds at Cadena Holdings Ltd which is the holding company of Pradera Asset Management PLC, a continental European focused out-of-town retail property fund manager. Neil is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and is FSA qualified. He is the current President of the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC).

After graduating from the University of the West of England in 1991 Robert began his career on the agency side of real estate, working for Knight Frank, where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor before moving to Jones Lang LaSalle. After completing a full-time MBA at the University of Cranfield in 1999, he changed career focus to become a principal working for Europa Capital Partners in Western Europe. In 2001 Robert left Europa to pursue the acquisition of a substantial mixed-use real estate investment opportunity the F15 Partnership detailed in Part 1 of this document in which he co-invested with both Tim Barlow and James Morse. This led to the formation of SPIM, and his current working partnership with Tim Barlow, in 2002. As well as being a co-founder of SPIM, Robert has his own investment company, Granton Investments Limited, which he uses as a vehicle to seed new opportunities and co-invest in SPIM originated projects.

Tim has 21 years of real estate experience as a principal. After graduating from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1989, Tim started his property career with quoted developer/investor Broadwell Land plc. He then joined Artesian Estates plc in 1990 where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and gained wide experience in both commercial and residential development and investment. Whilst in this role, he was involved in fund raising and deployment of funds that were raised under the Conservative Government tax driven BES/EIS initiatives in real estate. Tim’s role included, amongst many things, acquisition due diligence, planning, development and asset management. Tim resigned his directorship in 1997 to become CEO of Monteagle Barlow Trust (MBT), a family commercial property company which he has grown and diversified considerably. He remains heavily involved and MBT co-invests in SPIM originated projects.

Quentin is an English solicitor. He joined Wedlake Bell in 1963 and undertook five years of Articles to qualify in 1969, subsequently being made a partner in 1970. He was head of the Property Department in London before moving to Guernsey in 1996 to take over as Senior Partner of Wedlake Bell Guernsey. Quentin specialises in UK commercial property transactions for offshore funds and for persons and entities not tax resident in the UK. He is Chairman of the Guernsey Housing Association LBG, Atlas Estates Limited, IRP Property Investments Limited, Quintain Guernsey Limited and is a non-executive director of several other property funds including Develica Deutschland Limited. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and holds a Personal Fiduciary Licence from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

After graduating from Durham University with a degree in mathematics, Edwin began his career at Avon Rubber Limited in 1968 where he became a Production Engineering Manager. From 1972 to 1984 he was Finance Director, then Project Director (Brazil) and culminating in Assistant Group Managing Director at Scapa Group plc. Between 1984 and 2006 Edwin was Executive Chairman of Strix Group Limited which, when he left, had a turnover of £100 million per annum and employed over 1,000 staff in Europe and Asia. He is currently a director of Burnden Leisure plc (owner of Bolton Wanderers Football Club Limited), Moonshift Investments Limited and Sula Group Limited. He was awarded an OBE in 2000 for services to industry, has been a trustee at the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2007 and was awarded a doctorate from Manchester University in 2008.

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