B P Collins LLP

Dispute Resolution

Partner

An experienced commercial and regulatory litigator and solicitor-advocate, Simon regularly advises on commercial law, insolvency and asset recovery, often cross-border and with jurisdictional implications, in litigation and arbitration. He also has expertise in construction disputes; regulatory proceedings, often acting for professionals and directors; and in judicial review.

Simon has conducted litigation in most civil divisions of the High Court; in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court; has advised in connection with domestic and international arbitrations, and has been involved in proceedings in the UK and internationally.

Prior to joining B P Collins LLP, Simon was in-house counsel at a FTSE multi-national FMCG business, focusing on commercial and regulatory litigation.

With significant experience acting for a range of household names and as an advocate, Simon provides practical and commercially focused advice, often to commercial parties operating in the renewable energy, manufacturing and technology, and pharmaceutical sectors.

With several reported decisions, Simon has also had a number of successful outcomes acting for shareholders and directors in complex boardroom and ownership disputes, in the sport, media and entertainment field, defending parties before regulators, and in challenges to legislative decisions via judicial review.

Simon has also gained significant experience as an advocate before domestic courts and tribunals and regularly appears in the High Court on a range of commercial matters.

Simon is often sought for media comment, having previously spoken on the judicial review implications of HS2 scheme changes. National recycling trade body, the British Metals Recycling Association, has also invited Simon to present workshops to its members on regulatory issues in the environmental field, for whom he has also written several articles on related issues. He attended COP 26 as part of the West London Business delegation and participated in podcasts on pertinent topics from the event.

Simon won Solicitor-Advocate of the Year at the BB&O Law Society Awards in 2019.

English

Simon is a non-executive director of a multi-academy trust. He is a member of the Sports Resolutions pro bono panel, and the Australia + New Zealand Sports Law Association.

Simon read law at the University of Reading and completed his legal training at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.

Simon enjoys almost all sports, including triathlons, completing his first Ironman 70.3 in 2014; and in December 2017 was part of a five-man crew which successfully sailed unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean.