Meet Our Team
We have a hugely experienced team with diverse expertise.
Raed Hanna
Managing Director
Raed Hanna graduated from City University, London and has a BSc and MSc Degree. In 1984, Raed Hanna established a financial services group, City Financial, with eight other people. The business quickly grew with offices opening throughout the United Kingdom. By the time the business was sold in 1999, it had nearly 2000 people under employment.
In 1998, Raed Hanna established Mutual Finance, another financial services group, to cater to high-net-worth individuals. Rebranded as MFL, it has quickly become one of the largest property finance intermediary in the sector, with drawn down funds of more than £1bn per annum and gained respect within the banking community. Typically involved in the financing of the most high profile properties in the United Kingdom and Internationally along with project finance and infrastructure projects again, in the UK and Internationally.
Property technology is also an area where Matt has hands on experience through developing bespoke data and reporting platforms and utilising ground-breaking smart building technology to reduce running costs.
Scott McKinnon
Director
Scott began a career in banking in 1990 when he joined Anglo Irish Bank as part of the original lending team. Scott was key to the success of the business in the early years and worked on the bank’s CMBS product “Monument 1” . At this time AIB was at the forefront of the UK real estate and structured finance markets. He has also gained invaluable experience in a number of peaks and troughs in the property market.
Joining MFL in 2001 Scott has now been with the company for over 20 years. During that time his banking background has aided him in growing the business substantially. Most recently Scott has been working with a variety of lenders (both Banks and “Non-Bank”) and assisted MFL with over £1 billion of completed transactions in 2023. Recent highlights include the refinance of the Pullman Hotel, Euston. Scott structured a new £107m banking facility with BNP Paribas that included the novation of an interest rate cap where the current lender that was “out of the money”.
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