About
Simon is a senior counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency practice. He has more than 26 years’ experience of advising on insolvency, restructuring and recovery issues.
Simon acts for troubled companies and their directors and shareholders, for individuals in financial difficulty, and for the major financial creditors of such entities or individuals. His clients also include distressed debt investors, insolvency officeholders and a variety of other parties with an interest, or potential interest, in a troubled company’s business.
Simon was the author of the Insolvency and Restructuring Manual, which was first published shortly after the 2008 financial crisis. A fourth edition of that work was recently published by Bloomsbury Professional Ltd.
Simon is also the co-author of Bloomsbury’s guide to the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, the latest major piece of UK insolvency legislation.
Experience
- Advising global fashion brand, Superdry, on capital and restructuring measures.
- Advising Kew Green Hotels and its shareholders in relation to its debt restructuring, lease restructuring, certain bolt-on acquisitions and successful exit to China Travel Service.
- Advising OpCapita on its loan-to-own acquisitions of the UK business and assets of the retailer GAME Digital, its operational turnaround, a ground breaking dispute with landlords and on its exit by way of a floatation. We have since advised on its financing arrangements and its takeover by Sports Direct.
- Advising Castle Trust Bank on its innovative schemes of arrangements to restructure retail bonds into deposits as part of its conversion into a bank.
- Advising a group of companies head-quartered in France and operating in the waste management sector on the solvency issues faced by various of their English subsidiaries.
- Advising the administrators of a litigation funding company on the recovery of the various sums due to it.
- Advising a high-net-worth individual in relation to a bankruptcy petition presented against him by the UK tax authority and helping him reach a resolution.