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Growing up in the tough East End neighbourhood of Leyton in the late 1970s and early '80s, Nassar Hussain was careful about the route he chose to walk to school every day.
“As an Asian kid, for my generation it was a pretty hostile environment and you had to become street smart pretty quickly,” he said. “Racial abuse was rife. Verbal abuse was a daily occurrence, coupled with occasional physical violence.”
One of eight children in a family that arrived in the UK from Mirpur in Pakistan when he was a 1-year-old, with parents who did not speak English, Hussain grew up to found Brookland Partners, which operates as a reflection of Hussein: someone with a low profile, but a big reputation in the real estate industry.
In the wake of the last downturn, Hussain became the go-to guy for everyone from giant private equity firms to government bodies when they needed their real estate debt restructured. More recently, he has been involved in some of the most innovative debt financings in the market, including for…
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