Cushman & Wakefield has appointed real estate finance specialist Michael Lindsay as a partner and head of its EMEA Corporate Finance team in London. The appointment is part of the property adviser's ongoing strategic recruitment initiative.

Lindsay will join Matthew Stone and Luca Giangolini and run the EMEA corporate finance team which comprises chartered accountants, corporate financiers, surveyors and financial analysts.

Lindsay has worked in real estate corporate finance since 1998. He has held various senior appointments including partner and UK head of corporate finance at KPMG and director in Citigroup's real estate & lodging investment banking team. At KPMG, he recently led a team advising the liquidators of a Lehman subsidiary in Asia on the management and realisation of a EUR 1.2 bn real estate loan portfolio secured on assets in China, Thailand and Malaysia.