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TOWER BRIDGE HOUSE
ST KATHARINE'S WAY
LONDON
E1W 1AA
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Simon Hart
Work Department
Commercial disputes.
Position
Simon is a litigation partner and Head of Financial Disputes. He specialises in banking disputes and financial markets litigation, often against the largest investment banks. He has acted in claims involving for example derivatives, structured products, repo arrangements and CDOs. He regularly advises on disputes arising out of loan facilities and financial restructurings. He has acted for a wide variety of clients including hedge funds, corporates, HNW investors, financial institutions and insolvency office holders.
He also has wide experience of multi-jurisdictional litigation arising out of complex fraud and asset tracing, as well as commercial contracts and shareholder disputes.
Simon has assisted corporate clients with regulatory and internal investigations of both a domestic and cross-border nature.
Career
Trained Wilde Sapte (now Dentons); qualified 1996; associate Wilde Sapte 2002; senior associate Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) 2002-05; partner Richards Butler 2005-12; partner RPC 2012. Publications of note: Simon is a contributor to the third edition of ‘Banking Litigation’ published by Sweet & Maxwell.
Memberships
Simon is an officer of the International Bar Association Litigation Committee.
Education
Leeds Grammar School; Durham University, BA (Hons) 1989-92; College of Law, York Dip (Law) 1992-94.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
(Leading individuals)RPC’s banking litigation practice has ‘strengths across all levels of seniority’, with expertise in contentious insolvency and restructuring situations. The firm is able to act for sovereign states, European regional banks, pension funds, hedge funds, and high-net-worth individuals, on disputes linked to loan facilities, cryptocurrencies, and fraud. ‘Top-class banking litigator’ Simon Hart is head of the team, with vast experience in multi-jurisdictional litigation linked to complex fraud and asset tracing. Tom Hibbert, global head of commercial disputes, has ’real insight and strategic flair‘, and specialises in investment banking litigation. At associate level, ‘great talent’ Emma West is noted, alongside Christopher Wheatley and Alexandra Shearer.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Banking litigation: investment and retail London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Customs and excise
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans