Simmons & Simmons

Corporate.

Arthur has wide-ranging expertise in private acquisitions, disposals, mergers and joint ventures in the asset management sector. He leads our UK Company & Commercial Group and serves as a member of our UK Management Committee.

Arthur is a partner in our UK Corporate group. He has extensive experience in acting for regulated clients in regulated sectors on domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial agreements, securities offerings and corporate restructurings. He is particularly experienced in advising private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, institutional funds and global asset managers.

Shortlisted for ‘innovative deal of the year’ for his work on competitive auction processes in M&A, he worked closely with our Solutions Business to produce our Interactive Deal Handbook, an innovative post transaction deal tool.

Arthur has completed client secondments to: IBM, RSA Group, BofA Securities and Macquarie.

Since joining Simmons & Simmons, Arthur has served on many of the firm’s key Partnership Committees, including on the firm’s Board.

Qualified 1995; Ashurst for six years; international counsel Debevoise and Plimpton, London (played a significant part in developing their London-based private equity and M&A practice); secondments to Merrill Lynch, Royal & Sun Alliance and IBM; private equity partner Simmons & Simmons 2006.