June Quarter Rent Demand: Payment, Deferral, Waiver, Other?

Touker Suleyman has 40 years' retail and manufacturing experience and is best known as the founder of quintessentially British menswear brand, Hawes & Curtis and the man credited with reinventing the seminal 90s womenswear label, Ghost. After a false start in accountancy, Touker kicked off his retail career at the age of 18. He entered into a joint venture in a leather factory and soon after established a clothing manufacturer supplying to some of the biggest names of the British high street. Touker’s rise in the business world has not been without its challenge. In the 1980s auditors identified significant debt behind one of his business ventures and he had six weeks to find £2 million pounds. Unfortunately a potential investor pulling out at the last minute, forcing the business into liquidation, and he was forced to start again from nothing. Touker went on to build a thriving international clothing manufacturer which still sits at the heart of his businesses and is now a serial entrepreneur, backing seven retail and commercial property businesses. Touker has a keen interest in supporting start-ups and invests in a number of small British companies. Total invested in the Den: £575, 000. Investments include: . Beamblock Yogo (S13 joint investment with Peter, yogo workout equipment) . Timberkits (S13, hand crafted wooden toys) . Bad Brownie (S13, luxury brownie company)

Anthony Lorenz is one of the best-known names in the London commercial property market and is a seasoned media commentator. He started his first consultancy, Baker Lorenz, in 1972 specialising in work such as Rent Reviews, Lease Renewals and Lease Restructuring. He has specialised over a period of 5 decades in corporate recovery during recessions. He founded Lorenz Consultancy in 2007, a boutique London commercial property consultancy, acting for some of London’s leading leisure, retail and commercial organisations.

Group Managing Director for Caesars Entertainment UK, overseeing 12 properties in the UK, South Africa and Egypt. Formerly the Chief Financial Officer with 9 years’ industry experience. A Chartered Accountant with a background advising Financial Services regulated clients and on M&A transactions across multiple sectors.

Mike is UK editor of Bisnow. Before this, alongside three friends he bought pan-European property mag EuroProperty out of non-existence and re established it before selling the business to PropertyEU. Prior to that he was editor of Property Week, and has also worked for Estates Gazette.