Stock Picture of Martin Paisner Pictured Outside His Heath Drive Home (no. 4) In West Hampstead London. City Lawyer Paisner Is A Close Associate Of Stockbroker Barry Townsley And Manages His Family Fortune. In 2005 Townsley Secretly Lent The Labour Party A1million And Was Nominated For A Peerage Weeks Later In February However He Was One Of The Four Businessmen Who Withdrew From The List Of Proposed Peers Amid Rumours That Nominations Had Been Blocked By The Lords Appointments Commission. Paisner Whose Links With Senior Labour Party Figures Include Lord Waheed Alli And Lord Derry Irvine Runs His Family Law Firm With His Brother. It Merged In 2000 With Rival Berwin Leighton And Has Earned Millions From More Than 100 Lucrative Government Contracts Including Consultancy Work On The Millennium Dome Advising The Ministry Of Defence On The Disposal Of Land And Carrying Out Work For The Cabinet Office On The Use Of Their Property. The Firm Also Specialises In The Private Finance Initiative One Of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Pet Projects.
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