Jonathan Paisner

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Jonathan Paisner is a solicitor with Mathias Gentle Page Hassan LLP, the founder of LMN Capital Partners Limited and a consultant to NetScientific plc and Howard KennedyFsi.[1] He got a start in law working at Berwin Leighton Paisner a firm set up his grandfather, Leslie Paisner as Paisner & Co, and is now run by Jonathan’s father, Harold and uncle Martin.

Education and personal life

Paisner attended the University of Oxford, holding an MA and a degree in French.[2] In 1987 he was a member of the board of benefactors at Christ Church, one of the colleges at the University of Oxford.[3]

Career

Paisner qualified as a lawyer in 1997 whilst working at his grandfather’s company Berwin Leighton Paisner, working there for three years in their corporate department before taking up a role in-house as general counsel and main board director of investment bank Shore Capital.[4]

From September 2003 to December 2010 Paisner was a main board director of Shore Capital Group plc,[5] where he acted as a director of the Group’s principal finance and asset management divisions, co-head of the Group’s German office, secretary and group legal counsel. Whilst at Shore he sat on numerous boards within the company, playing a key part in all areas the group’s activities, covering sectors including hotels, real estate, hedge funds as well as venture capital and private equity funds.[6] Shore Capital Group say that they are ‘a leading market-making business’ who offer ‘innovative corporate advice’.[7]

Paisner was also a director at Puma Investments, a member of Shore Capital Group. At Puma Investments he has been involved in their venture capital trusts (VCTs), ‘which work towards providing funding and expertise for smaller companies’. Puma started their VCTs in 1995 and Paisner worked on project number two (January 2005 to October 2008), number three (November 2005 to October 2008) and number four (November 2005 to October 2008).[5][8]

In July 2011 Paisner set up LMN Capital Partners; a corporate adviser and an ‘introducer and arranger of finance to business’, who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.[9]

He was appointed a consultant to legal firms Howard Kennedy FSI in September 2013[10] and Mathias Gentle Page Hassan in April 2014 and healthcare company NetScientific plc in August 2014.[1]

Politics

In September 2009 Paisner was named as being on the guest list for the Conservative’s premier political dinner, which gives those in the private sector a chance to influence the party. Also on the list were senior officials of Goldman and Sachs, Landsdowne Hedge Fund, the head of hedge fund CQS, Conservative peers and former aides.[11]

Charities

Paisner, like his, father and uncle is involved in charity work as trustee to a number of Israel-linked charities. The table below lists all the charities. It should be noted that many of these are in fact a 'linked' charity, meaning that each is effectively a subsidiary of one main charity the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Charity name Charity number Position Dates position held Co-trustees
Harry and Leah Cohen Trust 209691-3 Trustee 22/09/1962-
Joseph and Deborah Trust For The Hebrew University 209691-7 Trustee 22/09/1962-
Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 209691 Trustee 21/11/07-
Israel Zangwill Memorial 209691-9 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
J M Machover Charitable Trust 209691-14 Trustee 28/01/2010- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lionel Cohen Lectureship Trust 209691-6 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael and Anna Wix Trust 207863 Trustee 22/09/1962- Janet Beryl Bloch, Judith Susan Portrait, Dominic Brendan Flynn
Baron Felix de Menasce Foundation 209691-12 Trustee 26/01/10- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Aubrey and Bertha Kremer and Mark Dersch Charitable Trust 209691-13 Trustee 28/01/10- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph Porton Trust Fund 209691-1 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Goodenhay Trust 209691-4 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Henry Joseph Levitt Scholarship Trust 209691-5 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Philip Pollecoff Scholarships 209691-8 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arthur Davis Memorial Fund 209691-10 Trustee 22/09/1962- Parent charity: Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mejaai Charitable Trust 1112867 Trustee 31/01/2006- Elizabeth van Messel, Michael Laurent van Messel
British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 209691 Trustee Bernard Myers, Isaac Kaye, Jonathan Kaye, Margo Schwartz, Alan Philipp, Howard Shore, Henry Gabay

British Friends of the Hebrew University

The British Friends of the Hebrew University (BFHU) is a national charity set up to support and promote the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The charity provides funds for the University to support students and academics, to fund research projects and promote opportunities to study at the University.[12]

According to the BFHU website, the members of the board are[13]; Jenny Arwas, the non-executive director of Employment Opportunities, board member of the Prince’s Trust London Council and member of the Spanish and Portugese Synagogue;[14][15] Graham Edwards, a director at a number of companies and charities including OneVoice Europe,[16] who try to build bridges between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian communities in Europe and support the work of OneVoice Israel, OneVoice Palestine and OneVoice US;[17] Isaac Kaye, a donor to the Labour Party, member of Labour Friends of Israel and a key-backer to British Israel Communications and Research Centre; Jonathan Marks; Tony Page; Alan Philipp (treasurer), former treasurer of Jewish Care, chairman of the Jewish Care Pension Fund[18] and sits on the board of the Anglo-Jewish Association;[19] Marc Polonsky, a partner of law firm White & Case, trustee of the Polonsky Foundation, member of the board of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (N.B Martin Paisner is a trustee and Berwin Leighton Paisner provide legal advice to the centre);[20][21] Margo Schwartz; Elad Shraga, the global head of credit solutions group Deutsche Bank[22] and Joe Smouha QC.

Trustees to the charities, listed by ‘’Open Charities’’, are;[23] Bernard Myers, a special adviser and former managing director of N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, director of Rothschild Bank AG, an associate governor of the Hebrew University and member of the Jewish Leadership Council;[24] Isaac Kaye; Jonathan Marks; Margo Schwartz; Alan Philipp; Howard Shore, who, like Jonathan Paisner, is a director of Shore Capital Limited, UK Group of Hotels Plc and Puma Nominees Limited and a director of The Weizmann Institure Foundation, that Martin Paisner is chairman of;[25][26] Henry Gabay and Jonathan Paisner.

In May 2008, Geoffrey Simmonds, a former trustee of the BFHU until 2005, called for the Charity Commission to investigate its handling of millions of pounds worth of donor funds. Simmonds claimed the university had been missing out on funds because the charity had been deducting money for management costs.[27] The charity's chairman Brent Isaacs defended the policy and added that the president of the university, the Friends' trustees and the Charity Commission have expressed themselves comfortable with the arrangements.[28]

Affiliations

Company name Dissolved? Role Date of Appointment Date of resignation
L M N Capital Partners Limited No Director and Secretary 14/01/2014 14/01/2014
Catchbroad Limited No Director 03/07/2000 26/07/2001
Chic Retreats Limited No Director 08/05/2013 31/12/2013
Bracken Partners Group Limited Yes – 25/12/2009 Director 05/04/2002 14/10/2002
Ourpinboard Limited No Director 06/05/2014 12//05/2014
Stirling Highland Hotel Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
Shore Capital (Japan) Limited No Secretary 11/05/2007 31/12/2010
Puma VCT Plc Yes – 14/04/2013 Secretary 10/01/2005 02/10/2008
Shore Capital Treasury Limited No Director 15/01/2009 13/12/2010
Old Ship Hotel (Brighton) Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels Limited No Director 04/12/2008 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Markets Limited No Secretary 17/12/2003 31/12/2010
Lygon Arms Hotel Limited Yes – 16/02/1993 Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Limited No Director 21/09/2005 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Limited No Secretary 25/07/2005 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Management Limited No Secretary and director 02/11/2007 31/12/2010
Furlong Hotels Limited No Director 10/12/2009 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels Group Limited No Director 10/11/2008 31/12/2010
Charterhouse Stockbroker Limited No Secretary 04/09/2003 31/12/2010
Carlton Hotel (Edinburgh) Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
LMN Capital Limited No Director and Secretary 20/07/2011 -
Paramount Hotels (Daventry) Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Group Plc No Secretary and Director 04/09/2003 31/12/2010
UK Group of Hotels Plc No Director 22/07/2008 31/12/2010
UK Group of Hotels Plc No Secretary 04/06/2004 31/12/2010
The Fabedit Limited No Director 06/07/2012 -
Furlong Cotswolds Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
Jellyworks Limited No Secretary 06/05/2005 31/12/2010
St Peter Port Capital Limited No Secretary 11/06/2007 31/12/2010
BeautyV Limited No Director 28/07/1998 -
Paramount Hotels Investments Limited No Director 04/12/2008 31/12/2010
UK Hotels (Finance) Plc No Secretary 02/07/2004 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels Services Limited No Director 04/12/2008 31/12/2010
Scottish Highland Hotels Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
St Peter Port Investment Limited No Secretary 11/06/2007 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels (Hinckley) Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
St Peter Port Investment Management Limited No Secretary 11/06/2007 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels Holdings Limited No Director 04/12/2008 31/12/2010
Combe Grove Manor Hotel & Country Club Hotel Yes Director 01/10/2008 31/12/2010
Shore Capital International Limited No Director 11/07/2006 31/12/2010
Shore Capital International Limited No Secretary 04/09/2004 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Fund Administration Services Limited No Secretary 04/09/2003 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels (Basingstoke) Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010
Puma VCT II Plc Yes – 14/04/2013 Secretary 10/01/2005 02/10/2008
Puma VCT IV Plc No Secretary 30/11/2005 02/10/2008
Shore Capital Corporate Services Limited No Director 07/10/2009 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Finance Limited No Director 06/12/2007 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Investments Plc No Director 18/03/1009 31/12/2010
Shore Capital Group Plc No Director 11/05/2005 31/12/2010
Puma Brandenburg Limited No Director and Secretary 16/02/2006 29/11/2010
Puma VCT III Plc Yes – 22/02/2014 Secretary 30/11/2005 02/10/2008
Shore Capital Trading Limited No Director 14/07/2008 31/12/2010
Puma Nominees Limited No Secretary 06/05/2005 31/12/2010
Paramount Hotels Walton Hall Limited No Director 10/02/2009 31/12/2010

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The companies Jonathan is involved in can be split into the following categories:

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linkedin Jonathan Paisner, accessed 3 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek Jonathan Paisner, 1 December 2014, accessed 5 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Christ Church [4.pdf Develop Matters, Issue 2 Michaelmas 2013], accessed 5 December 2014.
  4. ↑ MGHP Legal Home page, accessed 5 December 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Open Corporates Jonathan Samuel Paisner, accessed 1 December 2014. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "OC" defined multiple times with different content
  6. ↑ St Peter Port Capital Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements, year ended 31 March 2014, accessed 5 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Shore Capital Overview, accessed 5 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Puma Investments How VTCs work, accessed 5 December 2014.
  9. ↑ LMN Capital Home page, accessed 5 December 2014.
  10. ↑ Howard Kennedy HKFsi Engages in New Perspective with Appointment of Jonathan Paisner, 11 September 2014, accessed 5 December 2014.
  11. ↑ Paul Ruddock Dinner at the Carlton: The New Tory power brokers ‘’Independent’’, 27 September 2009, accessed 5 December 2014.
  12. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University Mission Statement, accessed 15 December 2014.
  13. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University Meet the team, accessed 15 December 2014.
  14. ↑ Elizabeth Pears Hendon charity worker is ‘wonderful choice’ for MBE Hendon Times, 2 January 2009, accessed 15 December 2014.
  15. ↑ Marcus Dysch How community fared honours list The Jewish Chronicle, 31 December 2008, accessed 15 December 2014.
  16. ↑ Companies in the UK Graham Edwards, 15 December 2014.
  17. ↑ One Voice Movement Where, accessed 15 December 2014.
  18. ↑ Linkedin Alan Philipp, accessed 15 December 2014.
  19. ↑ Candice Krieger Alan Philipp recognised as a doyen of data publishing The Jewish Chronicle, 10 February 2010, accessed 15 December 2014.
  20. ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek Marc Polonsky, accessed 15 December 2014 .
  21. ↑ Charity Performance Charity details – Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, accessed 15 December 2014.
  22. ↑ Milken Institute Elad Shraga, accessed 15 December 2014.
  23. ↑ Open Charities British Friends of the Hebrew University, accessed 15 December 2014.
  24. ↑ Jewish Leadership Council Bernie Myers, accessed 15 December 2014.
  25. ↑ Company Check Howard Paul Shore, accessed 15 December 2014.
  26. ↑ Weizmann Final Trustees Report & Annual Accounts 2008, accessed 15 December 2014.
  27. ↑ Simon Rocker Ex-trustee turns on Friends of Hebrew U The Jewish Chronicle, 29 May 2008, accessed 15 December 2014.
  28. ↑ Simon Rocker Hebrew U donors protest at charges Jewish Chronicle, 6 June 2008, accessed 6 June 2015.
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