Topland hires distressed loan expert as co-MD

UK private investor Topland has announced the appointment of Mark Kingston as co-managing director.

Kingston is leaving his position at RBS after nine months during which he worked on the bank's real estate strategy for distressed loans in the Global Restructuring Group. Prior to that he was a director at Barclays Capital for two years helping the bank to exit its distressed loan book.

He was managing director and head of the UK for 10 years at Tishman Speyer acquiring and selling many of its UK investments including Citypoint, Peterborough Court and Leadenhall Court and developments at Tower Place, Millbank Tower, Nexus Place and Centrium Aldwych.