Simon has a specialist costs & litigation funding practice. In addition to being a ‘go to’ junior for Silks in all costs and funding-related litigation, he regularly appears as sole counsel in complex and high-value cases in the High Court and Senior Courts Costs Office.

Examples of recent instructions include:

Acting (led by Nicholas Bacon KC) for the arbitration firm Volterra Fietta in the important appeal of Diag Human SE & Stava v Volterra Fietta [2023] EWCA Civ 1107, regarding the enforceability of Volterra Fietta’s retainer for work done in relation to a multi-billion-dollar BIT Arbitration, and the availability of severance. Acting for Harbour Fund IV LP (led by Roger Mallalieu KC), the commercial funder for the Claimant in the multi-billion-pound Suppipat & Ors v Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Ltd & Ors (one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022) including the defence of an application against Harbour Fund IV for security in respect of the Defendants’ expected costs to trial of more than £67m. Acting as sole counsel for more than 50 individual claimants in relation to the assessment of costs incurred in the ongoing MTVIL ‘phone hacking’ litigation against News Group Newspapers Ltd.

In addition to the above, Simon is regularly instructed to advise firms, funders and parties to litigation in relation to the recovery of their costs, retainer issues, applications for security, Solicitor Act assessments, and points of principle in Fixed Cost regimes. Further details of Simon’s work and reported cases can be found on the 4 New Square website.

COMBAR, TECBAR, LCIA and PNBA.

BA Jurisprudence, New College, Oxford (First Class); BPTC, City (Outstanding); Hardwicke and Lord Denning Scholarships, Lincoln’s Inn.

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