gunnercooke LLP

Corporate

Partner

Simon has a broad-ranging corporate and commercial practice specialising in all aspects of corporate, finance and commercial legal work. In the public company field, this includes advising companies and financial institutions on public takeovers, IPOs, reverse takeovers, fundraisings, rights issues and regulatory matters. In the private company field, he advises companies on transactional M&A, including business sale and purchases, joint ventures, some of which are a very substantial nature, as well as private equity transactions and fund formations.

Simon has also experience of project and financing transactions acting for both banks and corporates on their financing transactions. Simon has expertise in several areas and has advised clients in the chemicals and industrial, energy and minerals, technology, hotels and leisure, pharmaceutical and healthcare and financial sectors.

Simon regularly acts internationally for a range of domestic and international clients and, in recent years, he has advised on transactions in Western and Eastern Europe, USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, the far East, West Africa and the Middle East.