Deal Advisory is led by Lauren Silkstone — entrepreneur, investor, and commercial negotiator with over two decades of experience across finance, business ownership, and property.

Lauren began her career building a strong financial foundation across New Zealand and Australia before becoming a qualified independent Financial Adviser, representing major business and property clients in complex negotiations and tenders with financiers. For the past five years she has owned and operated her own finance company alongside a portfolio of business and property investments.

Her approach is shaped by a simple philosophy: buy over build. Over the past decade Lauren has developed a disciplined system for acquiring, operating, and extracting value from businesses and commercial property — delivering strong, consistent returns across a diversified portfolio.

That experience gives Lauren a rare combination of skills: the analytical rigour of a financier, the commercial instincts of a business owner, and the negotiation capability of someone who has sat across the table from banks, vendors, and buyers countless times.

Deal Advisory exists for clients who want that same capability in their corner — calm, strategic, and focused entirely on getting the right outcome.

Greg:

‘Negotiating the sale of a business along with commercial land and building came with somewhat of an epiphany - I was not the person to do it. For me it was tantamount to using my non-dominant hand to write a 3000-word essay on Greek philosophy. 

I engaged Lauren to bring her expertise to the table on my behalf and got so much more than I expected. Lauren’s negotiations with the purchaser on my behalf, brought calm focus, balanced with care and understanding, along with her extensive commercial background, and got the deal done. I cannot thank her enough. Her communication and reasoning throughout provided surety that I would not have had otherwise.’