Christopher Bailey
Co Founder and Group Director
Chris Bailey is an entrepreneurial Chartered Accountant who has been involved in the property industry for almost 30 years. He runs five successful accountancy practices, a tax advisory company and a property Capital Allowance business.
Chris has over ten years experience of Capital Allowance claims and he has extensive knowledge of the complexities and challenges of property tax law.
His first role after qualifying as a chartered accountant was as the group accountant to one of the largest private property groups in Yorkshire. After moving back into private practice, over the next 7 years he built an accountancy practice that was eventually floated on the AIM market.
He and his wife own numerous buy to let properties and during the early 2000s developed an international property business.
Malcolm Rose
Co Founder and Group Director
Since 2005, Malcolm has helped hundreds of individuals and companies to succeed in their personal and business aspirations, which is in large part due to his hands on approach to coaching, mentoring, and business advice.
Group Director of Less Tax 4 Landlords and the One Consultancy Group, Malcolm is also Managing Director of The Key 2 Growth, a corporate shareholder of One Consultancy Group and a founding company of Less Tax 4 Landlords.
Prior to training as a professional coach and business mentor and setting up The Key 2 Growth, Malcolm led a successful career in change management for a global insurance company.
Malcolm enjoys enabling people to realise their goals by helping them to develop objective business plans and to see them through to implementation and realisation.
Nigel Hall
Group Managing Director
As Group Managing Director of Less Tax 4 Landlords and associated companies, Nigel leads with the big picture, coordinating the full range of qualified and regulated services required to provide landlords with fully holistic no-nonsense advice.
A sought-after business consultant in his own right, Nigel has a track-record of leading companies in the financial services industry and a background in senior roles regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Running a multi-disciplinary practice dedicated to property business owners and regularly consulting for highly successful landlords and sector professionals gives Nigel unique insights to help landlords look at the business decisions they need to take today and tomorrow. Expect then his talks to be focussed on helping landlords understand the decisions they'll face throughout the lifetime of their property business - and how to go about maximising the commercial benefits of running and owning one.
Vajahat Sharif
Group Head of Legal
Vajahat is a solicitor and has been involved in the legal profession for over 25 years.
He was a founding partner in a Piccadilly law practice and acts as a consultant to leading law firms within the Legal 500.
Graeme Smallman
Financial Services Development
Graeme has worked in and around property for 15yrs. He started his career dealing and onboarding clients, factfinding and giving holistic planning advice. The advice was focused on habitual finances but included specific advice on savings, investment, Tax, & insurance.
He moved into residential mortgage advice further developing a client base around property with Buy to Let properties, expanding into development and commercial lending, at this point he started consulting with external providers and lenders to help create future products troubleshoot and improve internal processes. This led him to be invited to give his opinion on potential market changes from government bodies.
Graeme is a Qualified Chartered Financial Adviser & Mortgage adviser ALIBF, Adv DipFA, AwPETR, CeLTCI, Cert CII (MP) meaning he is qualified to advise on managing Investments, long term care insurance, later life and retirement planning, final salary transfers, taxation, trusts, and tax compliance, as well as general investment advice, Insurance, savings, and finally lending advice including residential, BTL, commercial, and development finance.