Jonathan Paisner

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. Linkedin Jonathan Paisner, accessed 3 June 2015. 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. Bloomberg Businessweek Jonathan Paisner, 1 December 2014, accessed 5 December 2014. In 1987 he was a member of the board of benefactors at Christ Church, one of the colleges at the University of Oxford. Christ Church [4.pdf Develop Matters, Issue 2 Michaelmas 2013], accessed 5 December 2014.
==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. MGHP Legal Home page, accessed 5 December 2014. 
From September 2003 to December 2010 Paisner was a main board director of Shore Capital Group plc, Open Corporates Jonathan Samuel Paisner, accessed 1 December 2014. 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. St Peter Port Capital Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements, year ended 31 March 2014, accessed 5 December 2014. Shore Capital Group say that they are ‘a leading market-making business’ who offer ‘innovative corporate advice’. Shore Capital Overview, accessed 5 December 2014.
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). Puma Investments How VTCs work, accessed 5 December 2014.
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. LMN Capital Home page, accessed 5 December 2014.
He was appointed a consultant to legal firms Howard Kennedy FSI in September 2013 Howard Kennedy HKFsi Engages in New Perspective with Appointment of Jonathan Paisner, 11 September 2014, accessed 5 December 2014. and Mathias Gentle Page Hassan in April 2014 and healthcare company NetScientific plc in August 2014.
==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. Paul Ruddock Dinner at the Carlton: The New Tory power brokers ‘’Independent’’, 27 September 2009, accessed 5 December 2014.
==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. British Friends of the Hebrew University Mission Statement, accessed 15 December 2014. 
According to the BFHU website, the members of the board are British Friends of the Hebrew University Meet the team, accessed 15 December 2014.; 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; Elizabeth Pears Hendon charity worker is ‘wonderful choice’ for MBE Hendon Times, 2 January 2009, accessed 15 December 2014. Marcus Dysch How community fared honours list The Jewish Chronicle, 31 December 2008, accessed 15 December 2014. Graham Edwards, a director at a number of companies and charities including OneVoice Europe, Companies in the UK Graham Edwards, 15 December 2014. 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; One Voice Movement Where, accessed 15 December 2014. 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 Linkedin Alan Philipp, accessed 15 December 2014. and sits on the board of the Anglo-Jewish Association; Candice Krieger Alan Philipp recognised as a doyen of data publishing The Jewish Chronicle, 10 February 2010, accessed 15 December 2014. 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); Bloomberg Businessweek Marc Polonsky, accessed 15 December 2014
. Charity Performance Charity details – Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, accessed 15 December 2014. Margo Schwartz; Elad Shraga, the global head of credit solutions group Deutsche Bank Milken Institute Elad Shraga, accessed 15 December 2014. and Joe Smouha QC.
Trustees to the charities, listed by ‘’Open Charities’’, are; Open Charities British Friends of the Hebrew University, accessed 15 December 2014. 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; Jewish Leadership Council Bernie Myers, accessed 15 December 2014. 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; Company Check Howard Paul Shore, accessed 15 December 2014. Weizmann Final Trustees Report & Annual Accounts 2008, accessed 15 December 2014. 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. Simon Rocker Ex-trustee turns on Friends of Hebrew U The Jewish Chronicle, 29 May 2008, accessed 15 December 2014. 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. Simon Rocker Hebrew U donors protest at charges Jewish Chronicle, 6 June 2008, accessed 6 June 2015.
==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
 Open Corporates Jonathan Samuel Paisner, accessed 3 June 2015. 
The companies Jonathan is involved in can be split into the following categories:
*Hotels: Chic Retreats Limited, Stirling Highland Hotel Limited, Old Ship Hotel Limited, Paramount Hotel Limited, Lugon Arms Hotel Limited, Furlong Hotels Limited, Carlton Hotel Limited, UK Group of Hotels Plc, Scottish Highland Hotels Limited and Combe Grove Manor Hotel and Country Club Hotel.
*Investments Firms: LMN Capital Limited, Bracken Partners Group Limited, Shore Capital Limited, Puma VCT Plc, Charterhouse Stockbroker Limited and St Peter Port Capital Limited.
*Fashion: The Fabedit Limited and BeautyV Limited. Both of these are with his wife Susanna Paisner.
*Healthcare: Jellyworks Limited.
==Notes==
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