Parik Chandra

Parik joined Downing in August 2017 and heads the Property Finance Team, primarily focused on residential development finance, non-speculative commercial development finance and bridging finance. Parik has 18+ years financial services experience, with a specialism in real estate finance but with broader experience including leveraged finance, restructuring and private equity placement. Parik was previously a Director on the Real Estate Finance Team at Funding Circle, where he transacted over 100 development finance and bridging deals. He also spent nearly 10 years within the corporate bank at Barclays, including time as a Director in the Real Estate Finance Team, and has held positions at  Citigroup, Puma Investment Management and Asante Capital Group as well.