Two principals. Your adviser is one of them.
Goodman Corporate Finance is run by Paul and Roxanne Goodman, husband and wife, who built the firm together over more than twenty years. The firm is deliberately small, and the advice, the credit judgment and the client relationship stay with the two of them. When a credit decision is made, a principal makes it. When your deal reaches a lender, a principal has structured it.
Most firms of this age have grown layers of staff and moved their senior people away from the day-to-day work. We have chosen the opposite. It means we take on fewer clients and give each one direct access to the people whose name is on the door. For the businesses we work with, that is the whole point.
The experience behind every conversation.
Before commercial finance, Paul Goodman spent ten years in accountancy practice and six running a joinery manufacturing business. He has sat where his clients sit, responsible for payroll, cash flow and the decisions that keep a business moving. For the last twenty years he has arranged commercial finance, and he is a former Chair of the NACFB, the trade body for commercial finance brokers.
That mix matters. The advice you get is grounded in having run a business, not only in having arranged finance for one. It is why the firm treats timing and structure as the real question, not simply which lender will say yes.
Breedon House Group
Childcare | £9.1 million | Growth finance
A 24-nursery group, sixteen of them rated Ofsted Outstanding, needed £9.1 million to invest in its facilities and reach its long-term growth ambitions. Its existing bank was not positioned to deliver it. We took the deal to Lloyds Bank and managed it through to completion.
"The funding from Lloyds Bank will be invaluable in helping us to achieve our long-term ambition of obtaining Outstanding for all of our nurseries."
Adrian Mason,
Operations Director
Wallace McDowall
Engineering | £3.25 million| Asset-based lending
A 50-year-old Scottish engineering business needed refinancing and growth capital after an acquisition. We ran a market-wide search, hand-picked four specialist lenders, and secured £3.25 million, including £500,000 for growth, within eight weeks.
"Goodman Corporate were spot on. We would have no hesitation in highly recommending them."
Stephen Penrice,
Financial Controller
Plum Products
Plum Products
Manufacturing| £4.35 million |Invoice and trade finance
A UK outdoor play equipment manufacturer with complex international supply chains needed a partner who understood both its working capital cycle and its global ambitions. We delivered during the pandemic, when most high street banks had stopped lending.
"Their support will allow us to advance to the next step of our journey as an international business."
Paul Schaffer
Managing Director
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