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Mayer Brown International LLP
201 BISHOPSGATE
LONDON
EC2M 3AF
England
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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Simon is a partner in the London office. He has a wide range of experience working for banks and other financial institutions across different types of syndicated and structured transactions, focusing on large leveraged and ABL facilities for cross border acquisition financings and for general corporate purposes. He has recently been involved in a number of high profile ABL transactions and has worked on a number of significant leveraged finance deals. In addition, Simon frequently acts for financial institutions in property acquisition and development financing transactions. He also acts for both corporates and financial institutions in more general syndicated and secured lending transactions.

Career

Simon joined Mayer Brown as a trainee in September 1997, qualified into the Finance Group in 1999 and was made partner in 2012. Admissions: England and Wales

Languages

English

Education

Nottingham Trent University Legal Practice Course Nottingham University LLB, Law

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Asset based lending

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Simon Fisher – Mayer Brown International LLP

Generally eschewing the more commoditised domestic lower-to-mid market mandates in favour of complex highly structured mandates, Mayer Brown International LLP is particularly well-suited to advising on cross-border mandates, often involving complex inter-creditor arrangements. Many of these are US-originated deals, where the UK team, which is headed by Alex Dell, often works alongside lawyers in Chicago and New York, or handles European deals for US-owned lenders. The vastly experienced Simon Fisher is often at the forefront of these large syndicated cross-border and transatlantic transactions, and he excels at working in a collegial way with colleagues in Europe and the US. Ravi Amin is also ‘superb’ at handling receivables financing and ABL transactions, as is Dominic Griffiths, whose expertise on ABL and more broadly across trade receivables and structured finance is reflective of the firm’s nimble and agile approach to work in the space. The arrival of dual UK and US-qualified Victoria Thompson, who ‘knows her way around market documents in great depth’, in September 2023 from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP bolsters the team’s offering in the space for banks and private credit providers, both on new money deals and restructurings.