Raymond Bloomfield

Raymond Bloomfield (b. October 30, 1956 in London) is a British Business Executive and Entrepreneur with activities in Real Estate Investment and Development in the UK, and Eastern Europe including Russia and CIS. His other activities extend to Oil & Gas, Private Equity, Fund Management and Tech/Media.

History

Bloomfield achieved early success in 1976 when he created Rayfield Estates [http://www.rayfieldestates.com] , which quickly became a very successful real estate agency specializing in luxury residential properties in London, before moving into residential development. Thereafter he moved on to Commercial Real Estate Development and Investment.

Raymond Bloomfield is widely credited with originating and implementing the idea of bringing major German Real Estate investors into the UK commercial Real Estate market, following a major downturn in the UK Economy and Stock market in the early 1990's. This, coupled with rising sterling interest rates reaching new highs, plus the collapse of a number of major UK publicly listed real estate companies, Bloomfield realized there was an exceptionally rare opportunity to acquire distressed prime real estate assets at a fraction of their previous values.

Having identified the absence of German investors, who had no loan exposure to the UK Real Estate market and the unnoticed opportunity , Bloomfield went on to acquire about $1.5 billion of assets on behalf of his exclusive private investor group.

Bloomfield also advised several banks in developing their UK Real Estate lending operations, several of these major German banks have since become established as leading funders of UK Real Estate.

From 1994, Bloomfield originated and developed with several of his existing investor group, a significant number of prominent properties in Prime Central London, particularly in the exclusive Mayfair/West End area and also in the Prime City district and Covent Garden. The projects varied in size from $20M - $250M.

Following a meeting with leading members of Moscow City Government in 1993 at Mipim, who, having heard of his well documented success in the London real estate crisis, invited Bloomfield to Moscow to see the opportunities that lay ahead. Bloomfield, again was one of the earliest pioneers, when he correctly identified the enormous potential, of what has become one of the world's largest economic markets — Russia/CIS, and in particular, spent considerable time focusing on the enormous Real Estate opportunities, ie: Hotels, Offices, Logistics, Retail, Gas Stations. During these years he structured and created a number of significant relationships with important individuals, a number of whom are today's leading businessmen both in Real Estate and other sectors of the Russian and CIS economies. Bloomfield, remains actively involved in numerous business ventures to date in the Russian Federation/CIS.

Other countries Bloomfield has been involved with Real Estate include, Germany, Czech Republic and North America. In recent years Bloomfield's activities have extended to: Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian Republics, and, as well as Real Estate his other business interests include, Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Technology.

Bloomfield is special adviser to a New multi sector $1bn Private Equity Fund based in Dubai which is part of Dubai Holdings and specializes in Eastern European and sub Sahara Emerging Market economies.

Bloomfield is extremely well connected at the highest levels and prefers to maintain a low profile. His activities are now carried out under the name of Rayfield Group, whose London offices are based at 76 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 5EE.