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Gateley Legal Offices

Gateley Legal
ONE ELEVEN
EDMUND STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B3 2HJ
England
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Simon Pigden

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Work Department

Commerce, technology and media.

Position

Simon heads up Gateley’s Business Services group and is also head of the Commerce, Technology & Media practice. He is a commercial lawyer in every sense, advising clients across a range of sectors. Simon advises on:

  • Commercial ventures
  • Outsourcing (of IT, logistics, facilities management and other business processes)
  • Procurement of goods and services
  • Licensing of rights
  • Supply chain management
  • Franchising
  • Sport
  • Hotels
  • Bribery Act compliance

Career

Qualified 1988; associate Eversheds; partner Pinsent Masons; partner Gateley 2008 to date.

Memberships

Birmingham Law Society.

Education

Tudor Grange; University of Nottingham (LLB Hons); all Law Society examinations passed.

Leisure

Simon enjoys rugby and football and supports Birmingham City Football Club. He appreciates music and plays blues guitar. He is working on a book based on the assassination of JFK.

Lawyer Rankings

West Midlands > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham

Gateley Legal fields one of the most active practices in the West Midlands, handling a strong mix of corporate and commercial transactions for various market-leading clients. Corporate practice chair Tom Durrant handles a number of cross-border acquisitions and disposals for individual entrepreneurs and international corporates alike. Paul Cliff specialises in equity capital markets and public company advisory work, while Simon Gill and Beth Mather focus on corporate finance and leveraged transactions. Commercial lead Simon Pigden, who also heads up the firm’s IP, commerce, and technology practice, routinely advises on outsourcing, procurement, and supply chain issues.  The ‘exceptional’ Tom Rush works with numerous household names on public M&A deals, most recently for clients in healthcare and manufacturing. All named lawyers are based in Birmingham.

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