Simon is a senior consultant and chairs the firm's ESG and Impact Group. Simon has particular expertise in sustainable finance and corporate governance, especially in the private markets.
Throughout his career Simon has been a prolific writer and regular speaker on company law and corporate governance and over the last 25 years or so he has advised private equity and venture capital, as well as the UK Government, on a wide range of fund and transactional matters. He has a market-leading reputation in the private equity sector with both Real Deals magazine and Private Equity International magazine having named Simon amongst the most influential figures in private equity.
Simon has previously been a member of the BVCA Council, was chair of the BVCA’s Legal and Accounting Committee between 2010 and 2016, and has also chaired Invest Europe’s Tax, Legal and Regulatory Committee. He is now a member of the BVCA's Accounting, Reporting and Governance Committee, the Policy Committee of UKSIF (the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association) and the ESG Committee of the City of London Law Society (CLLS).
In addition, Simon is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor in Practice in the Law School at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also teaches on the LLM programme. Simon's book, Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment in Private Equity, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.