Simon Cook > Sullivan & Worcester LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Sullivan & Worcester LLP Offices
TOWER 42
25 OLD BROAD STREET
LONDON
EC2N 1HQ
England
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Simon Cook
Work Department
Trade & Export Finance
Position
Simon Cook has experience in a wide variety of banking and finance transactions, including in particular in relation to structured trade finance, trade finance, project finance, invoice discounting facilities and borrowing-base facilities in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the CIS. His work in the structured trade area covers a range of pre-export and prepayment financings acting for both lenders and borrowers notably in oil, telecoms, soft commodities and metals sectors with particular experience in Africa and the Middle East.
Simon has worked and travelled extensively in Africa and the Middle East, having spent over three and a half years in Dubai. He has participated in a number of structured trade finance and project finance conferences and seminars throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, including speaking at conferences on PPP in South Africa; on project finance and structured trade finance at Afrexim’s annual structured finance conferences in Egypt, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa; and at structured trade finance seminars and general finance in London, Paris, Lisbon, Geneva, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana, Nairobi and Dubai.
Education
- The College of Law, 1994, CPE
- University of Bristol, 1991, M.A., Ancient History
- University of Bristol, 1990, BA, (Hons) in Ancient History
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Trade finance
(Leading individuals)Sullivan & Worcester LLP has ‘a dedicated team with depth of knowledge and they are great people to work with‘. The firm is not only a key adviser to financial institutions, funds, corporate borrowers, agents and trustees, international and industry bodies on the full range of traditional trade finance instruments, but it is also a leading player in the development of digital banking in trade finance platforms. Geoffrey Wynne
(who is ‘the most experienced trade finance lawyer in the market‘), the ‘hugely knowledgeable, commercially aware‘ Simon Cook (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), Sam Fowler-Holmes (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), and Mark Norris (who ‘seeks to find solutions and understands that cost management is particularly important‘) are the lead partners. Managing associate Hannah Fearn and head of the UK insurance and disputes practices Marian Boyle are also key to the practice. Wynne recently assisted Lloyds Bank with the template structure for the UK’s first digital ‘promissory note’ purchase under the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Digital Negotiable Instrument initiative (DNI).