A steady presence in the most complex situations.
Jonathan Disley is a corporate finance specialist and strategic adviser to founders and owner-managed businesses navigating their most consequential decisions.
Thirty years spent in the rooms where capital is committed, businesses are restructured, and reputations are tested.
His career has been spent around distressed assets, capital pressure, restructurings, launches, IPOs, and exits that required conviction to close. That experience spans property, hospitality, capital markets, restructuring, and private credit, with relationships across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States.
His value to founders is the independent read: what is sound, what is fragile, what a capital provider will challenge, and what should be repaired before the conversation leaves the room.
The work is candid, practical, and grounded in execution rather than a coaching framework. It is deliberately selective, so each engagement gets senior attention.
Every engagement starts with the same question: what is the real position? Not the version in the deck, but the commercial, financial, and stakeholder reality that a lender, investor, or acquirer will eventually find.
From there the work is about removing what is fragile before it becomes a problem in the room: weak assumptions, structural exposure, a story that does not hold under scrutiny.
The conversation that follows, with the bank, the board, the investor, or the acquirer, should feel prepared, not rehearsed.
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