Before establishing WR Capital in 2019, Westley spent 10 years with a boutique real estate structured finance business, where he focused on structuring senior debt and mezzanine finance for pan-European property investment and development projects.
Prior to this, Westley spent 6 years with a leading wealth-management business as Head of Real Estate Finance where he was solely responsible for negotiating and structuring finance for all their UK and European activity. During that time, Westley successfully arranged in excess of £800m of finance secured across a wide variety of transactions in both the UK and Western Europe.
Westley also has 6 years’ experience in real estate banking, having worked in the lending and credit analysis teams at RBS, Credit Suisse and HSH Nordbank. There his roles included managing the credit application process as well as evaluating the profitability of various structured finance transactions.
Westley holds an Honours degree in Business Studies from Leeds University.