Graham Nash
Sorbus Finance — Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Most finance professionals understand lending. Fewer understand how businesses actually work — their cashflow cycles, their stock pressures, their tax position, their exit plans. Graham does, because he has spent his career running businesses as well as advising them.
As Commercial Director at Sorbus Finance and Director of BusinessWise Accountancy & Tax, Graham brings together commercial finance, accountancy, and hands-on business experience that spans industrial supplies, manufacturing, and professional services. This breadth means clients get joined-up advice that connects their funding requirements to their wider business strategy — not piecemeal solutions from multiple providers.
From complex structured deals to business acquisitions, invoice facilities, and commercial mortgages, Graham's depth of market knowledge and lender relationships means the cases that seem hardest to place are often the ones he is best equipped to solve.
Areas of expertise
Graham advises on complex and multi-product commercial finance structures, with particular depth in acquisition finance, lender strategy, and deals that require bespoke packaging.
Complex Structured Finance
Multi-product deals combining asset finance, business loans, and property finance — where depth of lender knowledge makes the difference.
Lender Panel Relationships
100+ UK lenders on the Sorbus panel. Graham's long-standing relationships with specialist and challenger lenders unlock terms that direct applicants cannot access.
Business Acquisition Finance
Management buyouts, trade acquisitions, and business purchases — structuring finance that covers goodwill, stock, and assets in a single facility.
Commercial Real Estate
Owner-occupied and investment property finance for businesses looking to buy premises, expand sites, or build long-term asset equity.
Invoice & Trade Finance
Unlocking cashflow through invoice discounting, factoring, and trade finance facilities for businesses with longer payment cycles or international supply chains.
Commercial Strategy
Setting the direction for Sorbus Finance's proposition — ensuring the business serves clients across all sectors with consistent, whole-of-market quality.
Career background
A career spanning industrial supplies, accountancy, and commercial finance — bringing real-world business experience to the funding decisions that shape how businesses grow.
Leads commercial strategy at Sorbus Finance, overseeing lender relationships, proposition development, and the firm's complex deal pipeline. Works directly with clients on structured, multi-product finance requirements where deep market knowledge and lender access are decisive.
Runs BusinessWise Accountancy and Tax, providing accountancy, tax planning, and business restructuring advice to SMEs across Derbyshire and beyond. This dual background in accountancy and commercial finance means Graham understands both the numbers behind a business and how to fund its next stage of growth.
Built a career spanning industrial supplies, accountancy, and commercial finance — giving him a ground-level understanding of the cashflow pressures, stock cycles, and capital requirements that manufacturing and trade businesses face. This operational background informs a practical, business-first approach to structuring finance.
Commercial finance insights
Practical guides on structured commercial finance, business acquisition, and complex lending from the Sorbus Finance team.
"The lenders who matter most are the ones who understand your client's business — not just their balance sheet. Building those relationships over years is what lets us put cases in front of decision-makers that a cold application would never reach.
Speak to Graham about your finance requirements
Free, no-obligation advice on structured finance, acquisitions, or any complex commercial lending need. No upfront fees — ever.