The Executive Management Team, led by Chief Executive Officer, William Astor, is responsible for directing both the strategic objective of the Company and overseeing the management of the business.
The Executive Management Team is responsible for providing leadership to, and overseeing the functioning of, the directors and senior management team to ensure that it acts in the best interests of the Group.
William is a Board Director and a member of the Investment Committee, and the Audit and Valuation Committee.
His primary responsibilities include the sourcing of finance, and management of LH’s investment programmes and strategy. He is also actively involved in the origination and execution of transactions undertaken by the business.
Having 17 years experience, William spent 6 years with Consensus Business administering the acquisition, financing and management of over £2bn of assets with finance from a diverse range of sources, including but not limited to senior bank debt, rated bank conduit structures, hedge funds and publicly listed AAA securitisations.
James is a Board Director and a member of the Investment Committee, Risk and Compliance Committee, Remuneration Committee and Chairs the ESG Committee.
He is responsible for day-to-day operations and oversees all real estate-related transactions, principally taking responsibility for overseeing the Multifamily investment programme. He co-founded Long Harbour in 2009.
James has spent 21 years successfully originating and executing on a range of asset-backed investments across a range of geographies and sectors. He has held investment roles in a number of companies including Pelham London Limited, Parkwood Asset Management and Cityreal.
Richard is a Board Director, a member of the Investment Committee, the Audit and Valuation Committee and Chairman of the Group’s Risk and Compliance Committee.
He is responsible for the Secured Income programme covering the UK and Europe, covering strategy, asset origination, structuring and the portfolio management. Richard is a member of the Residential Committee at the British Property Federation and a member of the executive committee at the Residential Freeholder Association.
With 30 years experience, prior to joining Long Harbour Richard was Managing Director of Consensus Capital where he was responsible for over £2 billion through the acquisition, funding and associated hedging of real estate and infrastructure-style regulated assets.
In his early career he spent 15 years at a number of UK and international banks acting as an advisor and funder of energy related project finance transactions across Europe and North America.
Douglas is the Group Finance Director and a member of the Risk and Compliance Committee. He brings wide ranging expertise to the day to day asset management of the underlying funds, and completion of corporate and asset transactions. His oversight responsibilities cover the finance, accounting, tax, treasury, risk management and regulatory compliance of the firm as an AIFM (Alternative Investment Fund Manager).
Douglas worked at Moore Stephens LLP (now "BDO") from 2000 to 2012. Having qualified as a chartered accountant in 2001, Douglas provided audit and assurance services to a client base comprising high-net worth family office investment and hedge funds, shipping and real estate clients (both private and public). Douglas was credited with a CISI certificate in FSA Financial Regulation in 2012.
Jack joined Long Harbour in 2009 and is the Managing Director for Long Harbour's Single Family Housing platform.
Prior to that he ran the UK Secured Income programme, which has deployed ~£2bn to date in residential freeholds. Jack still retains this role, but most of his duties there are being supported by a highly experienced team as he spends more time on the growth of the Single Family platform.
GDPR Privacy Policy
Introduction and background
The purpose of this policy is to outline how Long Harbour Limited has established measures to protect your privacy and information rights.
Your rights
We recognise that you have rights as a ‘data subject’, and that we have an obligation to uphold these.
This privacy notice aims to outline how we maintain these rights. In particular, it outlines:
How we collect and process your information
Why we do this
How you can exercise your rights;
Who to contact in the event you’re unhappy with our performance.
In various circumstances, your rights are as follows:
Right
Explanation
Right to be informed
This encompasses the obligation for us to be transparent in how we collect and use your personal data.
Right of access
You have the right to access your personal data and supplementary information.
Right to rectification
If the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you can request that we correct this.
Right to erasure
You can request that we delete or remove personal data where there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing
Right to restrict processing
You have the right to request that we cease processing your data, if:
· you consider it inaccurate or incomplete;
· you object to processing and we are considering whether we still have a legitimate interest to process it.
Right to data portability
Where you have consented to our processing your data, or where the processing is necessary for us to deliver a contract, you can request a copy of that data be provided to a third party in electronic form.
Right to object
You have the right to object to our processing under certain circumstances. For example, you can object to:
· direct marketing (including profiling); and
· processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics
Rights relating to automated decision making including profiling
Where we apply automated decision making, we must
· give you information about the processing;
· introduce simple ways for you to request human intervention or challenge a decision;
· carry out regular checks to make sure that our systems are working as intended
Information related to automated decision making is contained later in this notice.
This privacy notice outlines how we are transparent in our processing. Please get in touch with us through the ‘contact details’ section to find out more or to exercise your information rights. There are circumstances in which we will decline your request, but we will explain this clearly to you.
Information we collect
Please find below a summary of the information we process and how we use this to deliver services to you.
Information we collect
Why we collect this
How we process this
Finance
We process this information on our employees to allow us to administer their employment and benefits.
We process this information as one would expect of a responsible employer – to pay salaries, administer benefits, manage our obligations as an employer.
Payroll
We process this information on our employees to allow us to administer their employment and benefits.
We process this information as one would expect of a responsible employer – to pay salaries, administer benefits, manage our obligations as an employer.
Business administration (electronic file and document storage)
We process this information on our employees to allow us to administer their employment and benefits.
We process this information as one would expect of a responsible employer – to pay salaries, administer benefits, manage our obligations as an employer.
Business administration (email)
We process this information on our employees to allow us to administer their employment and benefits.
We process this information as one would expect of a responsible employer – to pay salaries, administer benefits, manage our obligations as an employer.
Human resources
We process this information on our employees to allow us to administer their employment and benefits.
We process this information as one would expect of a responsible employer – to pay salaries, administer benefits, manage our obligations as an employer.
Management agent
Our basis for processing this information is that it is necessary for us to deliver the services that you have contracted to.
We sometimes need to share information with the managing agent for the property.
Prospective client and non-clients’ data
We process this data by consent which is obtained when a positive “sign-up” is initiated.
We only use this data to distribute newsletters and similar as requested by the data subject.
We share data with a number of third parties in the course of delivering our services. These are summarised below:
Our IT service provider, ReflectiveIT, provides offsite backup services for us.
Moore Stephens LLP are our auditors and operate payroll on our behalf.
PeopleHR provides us a cloud-based HR management system, to help us administer employee records.
We can share information with other members of the Long Harbour group to support us in day-to-day business administration.
We use the Office 365 suite provided by Microsoft to handle our email and other office automation.
Retention of data
Long Harbour Limited retains information for seven (7) years from our point of last contact. We hold this information to support our legal and regulatory requirements. If you object to this retention, please contact us – details provided in the ‘Contact’ section.
Automated decision making
Long Harbour Limited does not routinely make use of automated decision making or profiling in processing your data.
Securing your information
Long Harbour Limited applies technical and organisational security measures in line with industry good practices such as ISO 27001. Long Harbour Limited has achieved the Cyber Essentials accreditation.
Contact details
We recognise that you may have questions on how we process and/or store your data, or may want to change either the data we hold on you or how we communicate with you in the future.
If you have any questions in respect of this notice, or would like to exercise your rights as a data subject (for example, to correct data or to exercise your right to access):
Long Harbour Limited, as data controller, can be contacted as follows: 33, Wigmore Street, London W1U 1QX
The Data Protection Officer can be contacted at the above address
This Website and its contents have been approved by Long Harbour Ltd ("Long Harbour") which is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"). The information contained in this Website relates to both regulated investment, as well as investment funds which are not recognised collective investment schemes for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of the United Kingdom (the "Act"). The promotion of the unregulated funds to, and access to this Website by, persons in the United Kingdom is accordingly restricted by law to persons falling within the following definitions:
i. investment professionals having professional experience of participating in unregulated collective investment schemes.
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iii. market counterparties or professional investors.
By accessing this Website beyond this point you confirm your status as a professional client or eligible counterparty (as defined in the handbook of rules and guidance issued from time to time by the FCA (the “FCA Rules”) and you warrant as such. Accordingly, the protections afforded to retail clients under the FCA Rules may not be available to you if you become a client of Long Harbour. You are not entitled to sue Long Harbour under sections 71 or 150 ('actions for damages') of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Please consult your legal adviser or visit the FCA’s Website for further explanation. Prospective investors should note that investing with Long Harbour carries a degree of risk and, if you choose to invest in any fund described or referred to in this Website, you may therefore lose some or all of any amount that you choose to invest.
Warranty
This Website and the information contained in it constitutes a financial promotion for the purposes of the Act and FCA Rules. Investment information provided in this Website is believed to be accurate at the date first published and no warranty is given. It may be changed without notice. Any research or analysis used in this Website has been procured by Long Harbour for its own use and may have been acted upon for Long Harbour’s own purposes. Long Harbour reserves the right to grant access or revoke the authority to access, use or reproduce the contents of the Long Harbour internet site at its absolute discretion. While reasonable care is taken to ensure the accuracy, security and confidentiality of information available through the Long Harbour internet site, Long Harbour does not accept responsibility for any consequence of any use of the Long Harbour internet site by any user, authorised or unauthorised. This Website provides an indication of the investment strategy and key terms of the Fund. It must not be construed as investment advice.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances will Long Harbour be held liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special or incidental losses or expenses arising in connection with the Website or use thereof or the inability by any party to use such Website, or in connection with any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or line or system failure, even if Long Harbour, or representatives thereof, are advised of the possibility of such damages, losses or expenses.
Law and Variation
This Website is established in England by Long Harbour in accordance with and shall be governed by, and your browsing in and use of this Website shall be deemed acceptance of, the laws of England and Wales. A condition of using this Website is that in the event of any dispute or proceeding you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts and waive any objection to proceedings in such courts on the grounds of venue or on the grounds that the proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Stewardship Code
Rule 2.2.3 of the FCA’s Conduct of Business Sourcebook requires Long Harbour Ltd to make a disclosure on its website about the nature of its commitment to the UK Financial Reporting Council’s Stewardship Code (the “Code”) or where the firm does not commit to the Code, its alternative investment strategy. The Code is voluntary and sets out a number of principles relating to engagement by investors with UK equity issuers. The firm pursues a range of investment strategies for its clients, those strategies do not involve investment in any UK listed equities. Therefore, whilst the firm is supportive of the objectives that underlie the Code, the investments the firm makes on behalf of its professional clients who are not natural persons are not subject to the UK Corporate Governance Code and the associated Stewardship Code.
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