Simon Woolley

Expertise Simon Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Banking & Finance

+44 (0) 7939 085997

Expertise

Simon brings a rare combination of legal expertise and business skills, as well as a wealth of banking, private equity, and professional services contacts, which can be deployed to assist businesses achieve their potential.

Simon has broad-based experience in transactional work, and is particularly recognised for leveraged finance and private equity.

Simon Advises

  • Banks and financial institutions
  • Corporate borrowers
  • Real estate borrowers
  • Entrepreneurs and management teams

 

Experience Highlights

  • Advising on over 400 deals (ranging in size from £500,000 to £1.1 billion) across a wide range of industry sectors and involving an array of different equity, debt, security and intercreditor structures
  • Advising on the £950 million public to private buy-out of Arcadia Group
  • Advising on the £915 million recommended offer for Littlewoods
  • Advising on the £900 million public to private of Big Food Group
  • Advising on the £1 billion public to private buy-out of Crest Nicholson
  • Advising on the £715 million purchase of the Daily Telegraph
  • Advising on the £700 million public to private of House of Fraser
  • Advising on the £1.1 billion public to private buy-out of McCarthy & Stone
  • Advising on the £70 million flotation of Safestyle plc
  • Experience as a business owner and acting as non-executive director/Chairman of private and public companies, as well as a business advisor to SMEs.

 

Simon particularly enjoys working with entrepreneurs/high growth companies.

 

Simon was selected for the initial “Hot 100” list compiled by the Lawyer

 

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • EOS Law LLP, Founder and Managing Partner (2010 – 2014)
  • DLA Piper, Office Managing Partner and Regional Head of Banking & Finance (1995 – 2009)

Expertise

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Simon brings a rare combination of legal expertise and business skills, as well as a wealth of banking, private equity, and professional services contacts, which can be deployed to assist businesses achieve their potential.

Simon has broad-based experience in transactional work, and is particularly recognised for leveraged finance and private equity.

Simon Advises

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  • Banks and financial institutions
  • Corporate borrowers
  • Real estate borrowers
  • Entrepreneurs and management teams

 

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising on over 400 deals (ranging in size from £500,000 to £1.1 billion) across a wide range of industry sectors and involving an array of different equity, debt, security and intercreditor structures
  • Advising on the £950 million public to private buy-out of Arcadia Group
  • Advising on the £915 million recommended offer for Littlewoods
  • Advising on the £900 million public to private of Big Food Group
  • Advising on the £1 billion public to private buy-out of Crest Nicholson
  • Advising on the £715 million purchase of the Daily Telegraph
  • Advising on the £700 million public to private of House of Fraser
  • Advising on the £1.1 billion public to private buy-out of McCarthy & Stone
  • Advising on the £70 million flotation of Safestyle plc
  • Experience as a business owner and acting as non-executive director/Chairman of private and public companies, as well as a business advisor to SMEs.

 

Simon particularly enjoys working with entrepreneurs/high growth companies.

 

Simon was selected for the initial “Hot 100” list compiled by the Lawyer

 

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • EOS Law LLP, Founder and Managing Partner (2010 – 2014)
  • DLA Piper, Office Managing Partner and Regional Head of Banking & Finance (1995 – 2009)