Lsl Prop Regulatory News (LSL)

24 May 2022

LSL Property Services plc ("LSL")

Acquisition by Pivotal Growth of The Loan Partnership

LSL announces that Pivotal Growth Limited ("Pivotal Growth") has acquired The Loan Partnership Limited ("TLP"), subject to approval of the change of control by the FCA.

TLP is a specialist mortgage broker, based in Hemel Hempstead, that was set up in 2013, and focuses on providing mortgage advice for second charge mortgages and bridging finance.

Pivotal Growth was established in April 2021 as a joint venture with Pollen Street Capital, to "buy and build" a leading national mortgage broker powered by market leading technology, first class regulatory compliance and exemplary customer service.

The acquisition of TLP is Pivotal Growth's third acquisition following the purchases of Lifetime Finance Group and Grange Mortgage and Protection Services, and the Pivotal Growth management team is in active discussion with a number of other brokers that it believes would benefit considerably by being part of Pivotal Growth and we expect to confirm further deals in due course.

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Notes on LSL

LSL is one of the largest providers of services to mortgage intermediaries and mortgage and protection advice to estate agency customers, completing around £41bn of mortgages in 2021. It represents around 10% of the total purchase and remortgage market with around 2,900 financial advisers. PRIMIS was named Best Network by Money Marketing in their 2021 awards.

LSL is one of the UK's largest providers of surveying and valuation services, supplying seven out of the ten largest lenders in the UK, employing around 500 operational surveyors, and performing over 500,000 valuations and surveys per annum for key lender clients. It was named Mortgage Surveyor of the Year at the 2021 Mortgage Awards with Money Age.

LSL also operates a network of 225 owned and 128 franchised estate agency branches.

For further information please visit LSL's website: lslps.co.uk

Notes on Pollen Street Capital

Pollen Street is one Europe's leading specialist private equity investors in the financial and business services sectors, having invested over £2bn since 2003 in a range of financial services businesses across all stages of development. PSC works with entrepreneurial management teams to build businesses that deliver market-leading products and services to their customers in order to create long-term sustainable success. Pollen Street has considerable experience of the UK mortgage market and in executing buy-and-build strategies.

www.pollencap.com