Simon Middleton

Simon is a partner in the banking group, which forms part of the financial markets department. He has extensive experience of advising both banks and borrowers on a wide variety of banking transactions throughout the UK, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His main specialist areas are acquisition finance (both public bids and leveraged acquisitions), syndicated and bilateral lending, structured financings and debt restructurings, as well as other general banking work. Simon has acted for a wide range of financial institutions, including Barclays, HSBC, RBS, BNP Paribas, SEB, Standard Bank and Bank of America; as well as borrowers such as Telefónica, Southern Cross Healthcare, HMV Group and MJ Gleeson.