Simon Bickerdike > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
31 CHERTSEY STREET
GUILDFORD, SURREY
GU1 4HD
England
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Simon Bickerdike
Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Partner in the corporate team specialising in cross-border and domestic transactions including sales and purchases, joint ventures, management buy outs, reorganisations, fund-raisings, shareholders’ arrangements and general corporate advice. Simon has a particular focus on the impact of sustainability on business transactions and is one of the firm’s contact partners for Multilaw which is one of the world’s leading associations of independent law firms.
Career
Trained at Titmuss Sainer & Webb; qualified in 1992; Titmuss Sainer & Webb 1990-94; Clyde & Co 1994-2004, partner from 2000; partner Penningtons 2004.
Education
St Joseph’s College, Ipswich; University of Nottingham.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
(Leading partners)Fielding a ‘wide range of legal specialisms’, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP‘s corporate team is led by Matt Martin, based in London. Focusing on M&A, the firm advises corporates, HNWIs, owner-managed businesses and investors on deals, regularly involving a strong cross-border dimension. The Southeast practice is based in Guildford with key lawyers including David Kendall, described as ‘an absolute expert’, commercial specialist Oliver Kidd, and Simon Bickerdike, who ‘always has the right answer’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Employment > Immigration