Simon is a Partner in our Real Estate Practice.
He has over 25 years' experience advising clients on sales, purchases, lettings, and development of commercial property, and has been a partner at Travers Smith since 2000.
Simon Rutman
Partner
Selected deals
- McCarthy Stone on its £300m sale of a portfolio of let retirement apartments.
- Patron Capital on its sale of its circa 1,300 pubs business Punch Taverns.
- Bridgepoint's acquisition of Miller Homes for £655 million.
- Westrock on the acquisition of PRS development sites in Cardiff, Crawley and Sheffield and the forward sale to Invesco of a PRS scheme in Exeter.
- CALA Homes' management in connection with the sale of Patron Haut LP's majority share of the housebuilder to Legal & General's (L&G) investment arm, giving L&G full ownership.
- Ashby Capital on its acquisition of the Guiseley retail park in Leeds.
- Patron Capital on the sale of the Gracewell care home portfolio, the sale of the Badby Park portfolio of specialist care homes and the development and sale of a further 13 care homes to Welltower and Revera.
- Voreda on its joint ventures with Imperial College to develop over a million square feet of student accommodation, laboratories, offices and residential accommodation at White City London.
- M&L Hospitality on the acquisition of hotels at Heathrow airport and on the Manchester University campus.
- ArcelorMittal in relation to the ArcelorMittal Orbit at the Olympic Park London.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
He is a very well-rounded transactional lawyer with a wealth of experience of different types of deal. He is incredibly responsive and nothing is too much trouble.
Simon is described as a class act, amazingly responsive and a pleasure to deal with.
Extremely high level of customer service and excellent knowledge of the field, which is combined with unrivalled commerciality.