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Simon Murfitt

+44 (0) 7496 851 096 simon.murfitt@gunnercooke.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Banking & Asset Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Simon is an experienced international banking & finance (particularly asset and project finance) lawyer with significant expertise in the aviation, marine and shipping sectors gained while working in the UK, North America, Europe and Asia. During his career, he has advised on a wide range of transportation projects for sponsors, financiers, charterers, regulators and other stakeholders at all stages of the commercial and operative life of the asset/project.

Specifically Simon is able to advise on the initial procurement process, ongoing facility/project management, operational, compliance and reporting issues, re-financings and re-structurings, default and enforcement processes. Most recently he has advised on a variety of non-traditional asset finance models restructuring and alternative finance models.

Simon also has international and domestic expertise in the other transport sectors including aviation, rail and shipping, advising financial institutions and other parties on a wide range of situations and transactions.

In addition to being qualified in England & Wales, Simon is also a solicitor and notary public in Scotland and also qualified to practise and advise on the laws of both the Republics of Kiribati and Tuvalu law.

Previous Law Firms

• Clifford Chance
• Norton Rose
• Mayer Brown JSM (then JSM)
• Linklaters
• Tods Murray WS