Simon is the Office Managing Partner in Manchester and he specialises in leveraged finance. He handles domestic and multi-jurisdictional financings, with a particular specialism in public to private transactions. Examples of transactions completed for debt funders include: £1.1bn public to private of McCarthy & Stone plc; £955m public to private buy out of Arcadia Group plc; £915m offer for Littlewoods plc; £900m public to private buy out of Big Food Group plc; £725m purchase of The Daily Telegraph; and £700m public to private of House of Fraser. Simon is a member of the Board of DLA Piper International LLP.

"partner" refers to a member of DLA Piper UK LLP

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