Simon is the firm’s Senior Partner. Simon trained and worked as a commercial litigator in the City before jointly setting up the firm with Simon Morgan in 2000. He has a particular interest in commercial fraud litigation – both civil and criminal - and has over 20 years experience in handling complex high value cases.

Over the course of his career he has acted in headline cases of libel, solicitor negligence and corporate insolvency and he continues to maintain an active role with a current general commercial portfolio, overseeing actions in matters such as liquidator’s acting against administrative receivers, defending freezing injunctions and related litigation.  Simon has recently advised a defendant in High Court litigation relating to the alleged improper payments made to secure government license concessions in the Eastern European oil and gas industry. Simon has previously successfully represented several defendants in a claim brought by an emerging market state bank.

Simon regularly advises a broad range of corporate and private clients involved in investigations and prosecutions in relation to allegations of commercial fraud, Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) fraud, pension fraud as well as other complex high value criminal trials and asset confiscations.

Due to his close links with Turkey, Simon is often approached on extradition matters and is currently handling a high profile extradition.  Simon is not only absolutely committed to his client’s cases and winning but has an insatiable interest in approaching the problem from novel angles. Known for his lateral thinking abilities he is usually the first to ‘square the circle’ in cases.  “Very easy to deal with but highly focused” . 

He is a Specialist Fraud Panel Supervisor, a member of the Very High Costs Cases Appeals panel and a member of the Legal Services Commission Area Committee. Simon speaks fluent Turkish.

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