The Puma Property Finance team continues to grow with two new appointments

Puma Property Finance, a specialist funding partner to experienced developers across the UK, is delighted to announce the appointments of Paul O’Kane as Senior Manager and Rocco Versace as Portfolio Manager.

Paul has over 15 years’ experience working in the finance industry. He spent four years at KPMG in their Corporate Finance Department where he focused on business cases and investment appraisals and also qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Paul then moved into banking where he focused on real estate lending across both the residential and commercial sectors, at Anglo Irish Bank, Ulster Bank and Lloyds Banking Group.

At Lloyds, Paul was largely involved in the restructuring department, primarily focusing on distressed loans and the restructure of complex facilities of £100m+. Paul later moved back to the lending side, spending time in the Leveraged Finance Team at Lloyds, before joining a mezzanine finance fund in 2015 focusing on residential development funding in London and the south east of England.

Prior to joining Puma Property Finance, Rocco worked for Anacott Capital where he assisted in sourcing, underwriting and structuring both investment and development transactions.

More recently, Rocco worked for Avamore Capital where he was involved in origination, underwriting and loan monitoring. Rocco joined Avamore at its inception and helped the principals to build a £40m loan book in less than two years.

Rocco graduated from the European Business School, Regent’s University London, where he studied Global Banking and Finance.