People
Simon Burrows
Biography
Simon has specialist expertise focused on a wide range of private equity transactions, together with public and private mergers and acquisitions, co-investments and joint ventures.
In addition, he also has experience in restructurings, private funds and equity capital markets transactions. Simon regularly advises private equity and captive investors, hedge funds, public and private corporations and senior management teams on a range of complex cross-border transactions.
He has repeatedly been ranked in Chambers UK, Legal 500 and IFLR legal directories, which have described him as,"a great problem solver", "very practical and diligent", "strong technical expertise", "very hands-on and focused", "a fantastic lawyer", "pragmatic, detail-oriented, flexible", and "very creative and flexible in thought". Simon has been recognised as a private equity "Rising Star" by Law360 and a Super Lawyer "Rising Star".
Practice areas
- Financial services advisory and regulatory
- Bank recovery and resolution
- Global employment and compensation
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private client
- Private equity
- Asset management M and A
- Tech transactions
Sectors
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Financial institutions
- Private capital
- Private credit
- Sovereign wealth and institutional investors
- Capital solutions
- Private equity
Selected experience
- Liberty Global on its redomiciliation to Bermuda.
- Fairfax Financial on its acquisition of Meadow Foods.
- Paramount Global on its sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR for $1.62 billion in an all-cash transaction.
- CPPIB on its investment in 10x Future Technologies.
- AlbaCore Capital on its investment in the Hurtigruten Group.
- Liberty Global on its £1.2 billion investment into Vodafone.
- Daiwa International Capital Partners on its co-investment with InfraVia Capital Partners in Blue Phoenix Group.
- New Mountain Capital portfolio company Profile Products on its acquisition of the Quick Plug Group.
- AlbaCore Capital on its investment in Babylon Holdings Limited.
- TASC Towers on its acquisition of telco tower assets from Zain Jordan.
Education
- BA, MA, (Law – 1st Class Honours), University of Cambridge, 2003 Scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge Whytehead Scholar McMahon Law Prize
Admissions
- England & Wales, 2006
Languages
- English