Funding structured around the client, not the product.
DGL Commercial Finance was founded on the belief that commercial finance should begin with the client's long-term objectives — not the facility, and not the fastest route to completion.
Every recommendation begins with the exit.
DGL Commercial Finance was founded on the belief that commercial finance should begin with the client's long-term objectives, not the product.
Throughout my career I have worked with property investors, developers and business owners, helping them structure funding for acquisitions, developments, refinances and business growth. I repeatedly saw transactions where the focus was simply on securing finance, rather than ensuring it supported the client's wider strategy.
That experience led me to establish DGL Commercial Finance.
Every recommendation begins with one question:
"What does success look like at the end of this transaction?"
Only once the exit strategy is understood do I identify the most appropriate funding solution.
Clients work directly with me throughout the process. Every enquiry is personally reviewed, every funding strategy is carefully structured and every recommendation is made with the client's long-term objectives in mind.
Professional standing.
- Managing Director, DGL Commercial Finance
- Specialist in Bridging Finance, Development Finance and Commercial Mortgages
- Trustee, Speed of Sight
Trustee, Speed of Sight.
Proud Trustee of Speed of Sight, a charity providing life-changing driving experiences for disabled and disadvantaged people, helping individuals experience the freedom, confidence and excitement of motorsport.
Seven steps, from first conversation to exit.
Every case follows the same considered path. The introducing adviser is kept sighted at each stage.
- 01
Initial conversation
A short call to understand the objective, the timing and the professional context.
- 02
Funding Strategy Review
A structured review of options, exit, risks and next steps.
- 03
Funding strategy
A written recommendation, tested against the exit before any lender is approached.
- 04
Packaging
A complete submission that respects the underwriter's time — and the introducing adviser's.
- 05
Lender selection
Access to over one hundred specialist UK property lenders, selected on fit not favour.
- 06
Completion
Managed personally, with the adviser kept sighted at every stage.
- 07
Exit support
The relationship doesn't end at drawdown. The exit is the reason the facility exists.
Long-term relationships with the professionals who advise the same clients.
The majority of DGL's work comes through introductions — from accountants, solicitors, IFAs and other advisers who have seen the process, the packaging and the outcomes first-hand.
For professional advisers- Chartered Accountants
- Solicitors & Conveyancers
- Independent Financial Advisers
- Commercial Property Professionals
- Planning Consultants
- Auction Houses
- Valuers & Surveyors
- Specialist UK Lenders