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Simon Hart

020 3060 6671 simon.hart@rpc.co.uk

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.