Partner

Simon specialises in advising entrepreneurial private clients on all issues affecting them as founders and owners of large private businesses. As the head of the firm's corporate department for the last nine years, he has advised family companies and owners of many of the leading private businesses and agricultural businesses on the South Coast.

His practice involves all aspects of being an owner - financing, family trusts, succession and tax issues, sale and purchase of companies and businesses, company and partnership law and management incentivisation.

His recent transactional experience includes:

  • advising the founders of Auto Online on securing significant strategic investment from Tesco and the launch of TescoCars.com
  • the formation of family investment companies
  • the sale of substantial shareholdings in private companies.

Simon qualified in 1986 and worked in London and Reading before joining the firm.