Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Banking Litigation

Partner

Simon helps clients handle complex banking and financial services disputes.

Simon advises clients on complex civil claims and regulatory issues including contractual disputes, securities claims, derivatives, structured products, banking confidentiality, investment management and advice, product mis-selling, regulatory investigations, and internal systems and controls.

Simon is one of the partners who led a team representing RBS Group in defending actions brought by shareholder and investor groups in connection with its 2008 rights issue – one of the highest profile pieces of litigation in the UK in recent years.

Simon has helped clients in proceedings in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.

Simon graduated from the University of Oxford in 1993 and joined Herbert Smith Freehills in 2006.