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Goodwin Offices

Sancroft, 10-15 Newgate Street
London
EC1A 7AZ
England
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Simon Fulbrook

Position
Partner
Career
Simon Fulbrook is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group. Simon’s experience spans all areas of leveraged finance, including private equity-backed leveraged buyouts, management buyouts and buy-ins, corporate M&A and recapitalisations, acquisitions, funds, and real estate finance. He represents private equity firms, portfolio and other companies and lenders in the financial institutions, life sciences, healthcare, and other sectors.
He joined Goodwin in 2015.
Education
Law Society Finals, 2000, Guildford Law School
LLB, 1999, University of East Anglia (Honours)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Acquisition finance
Goodwin continues to perform well for private equity and venture capital/growth finance funds providing funding to borrowers, including in core areas of firmwide sector strength, such as tech and life sciences. As well as handling new money deals for sponsors and in relation to bolt-on acquisitions, the firm is also adept at advising portfolio companies on refinancing matters. Simon Fulbrook, who has deep knowledge in funding transactions utilising debt throughout the capital structure, is ‘excellent to work with’, ensuring that deals are efficiently executed. Hugh O’Sullivan co-heads the team alongside Fulbrook.
London > Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
Goodwin maintains high levels of activity in the private equity, real estate, credit fund, and infrastructure sectors, where it provides a range of services and debt financing solutions. The team is headed up by Ed Saunders, a well-respected fund finance lawyer who acts for managers, GPs, and banks on various products in the sector. Simon Fulbrook‘s practice centres on complex structured financing transactions. Paul Lyons is noted for his understanding of borrower and lender-side real estate debt finance.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Employment > Employers
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)