The winners of the 2019 Leasing Life awards were announced in Barcelona on Thursday.

The event brought together leading figures from the industry to share their visions for the future, offering valuable insight into the market.

This year’s Leasing Life Conference explored how Europe’s leasing industry is responding to the value chain opportunity, the role of technology in this pinnacle transformation, strategy-driven innovation and more.

The winners are as follows:

Asset finance intermediary – Medialease

Asset finance legal provider – Stephenson Harwood

SME champion – bank lessor – Close Brothers Asset Finance

SME champion – independent or private owned – White Oak UK

Vendor finance provider – DLL

European lessor – Societe Generale Equipment Finance

Middle ticket corporate lessor – ABM AMRO Lease

Digital Innovation of the year – BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions

Sustainability – Greenflex

Young professional of the year – Alexandra McWilliams from Simply Asset Finance

Industry Ambassador – Pascal Layan, deputy CEO BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions

Lifetime achievement award – Lindsay Town CEO of IAA Advisory (pictured above)