Paul Bloomfield (February 1946 – April 2016) was a British property investor known as "Boom-boom" Bloomfield.
Career
Bloomfield was involved with a string of high-profile deals during the 1980s and was known as the man that sourced the deals that made
Tony Clegg's
Mountleigh
Mountleigh was a property development and dealing company formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange
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a stock market favourite in 1986-87.
In 1989, it emerged that he was the joint owner of the
Alton Towers
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theme park and a leisure venture at
Battersea Power Station
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after he formed a joint venture, Alton International, with John Broome of Alton Group. Broome was struggling to complete the Battersea project.
He became bankrupt during the 1990s property crash. He later moved to Russia where he made successful deals in the former Soviet states. He helped to raise the finance for the redevelopment of
Wembley Stadium
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.
See also
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Jan Bonde Nielsen
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Bonde Nielsen found initial success in the floriculture industry through his Kenyan company, DCK International. In collaboration with th ...
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Mohammad Ghadami
Mohammad Reza Ghadami (born March 1954) is an Iranian-born British property developer based in Harlow, Essex.
In 1995, Ghadami was convicted in the Crown Court at St Albans of two counts of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of V ...
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Timur Kulibayev
Timur Askaruly Kulibayev ( kk, Тимур Асқарұлы Құлыбаев, ''Timur Asqarūly Qūlybaev'', born 10 September 1966) is a Kazakh business oligarch and son-in-law of former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kulibayev has hel ...
References
External links
"Bloomfield’s fall and rise" ''
The Times
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'', 5 September 2005
1946 births
2016 deaths
20th-century British businesspeople
British real estate and property developers
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