Shoosmiths LLP

Consultant

Simon Boss is Shoosmiths' former CEO. In this role, Simon combined leadership and management of the firm’s core divisions (real estate, corporate, business advisory and personal advisory) and support directorates, and focused on providing the unifying drive to take Shoosmiths into three years of exceptional financial growth for the firm.

During his leadership, Simon also balanced business with purpose, and championed Shoosmiths’ commitment to ESG with a focus on key issues such as social mobility, diversity and climate action. Examples of action during his tenure include the launch of grant-making body, The Shoosmiths Foundation; joining Justine Greening’s Levelling Up Goals; and establishing regular roundtables with clients on these topics to share best practice.

Simon has also discussed the firm’s involvement in the UN Global Compact’s Target Gender Equality Programme at their annual Business and Human Rights summit, and remains a committed member of the Business in the Community’s West Midlands Leadership Board.

Previous to his role as CEO, Simon was national head of the firm’s real estate division, which over six years saw a 120% increase in income and 130% increase in profit.

Simon joined Shoosmiths in 2005 from a major UK firm and helped to spearhead the growth of the firm’s Birmingham office. He became real estate head in Birmingham and served on Shoosmiths’ strategic partnership council from 2009 to 2012 before stepping up to a place on the Shoosmiths board and the role of real estate divisional head in 2012.

Humphry Davy Grammar School; Penwith Sixth Form College; Birmingham University (1985 LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford (1986 Law Society Finals).