Simon Felton > Appleby > St Helier, Jersey > Lawyer Profile
Appleby Offices
13-14 ESPLANADE
ST HELIER
JE1 1BD
Jersey
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Simon Felton
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Simon Felton is a partner in the Corporate team in Jersey. Simon is known for his experience in leading international teams working on complex and ground-breaking structures involving a variety of underlying assets including securities, infrastructure, real estate, investment funds and crypto assets.
His areas of expertise are:
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Structured Finance
Simon advises leading financial institutions, private debt funds, corporate clients and intermediaries on a wide range of capital markets, structured finance, fund finance and real estate finance work in relation to securities issues, secured lending and asset acquisition.
His practice also extends to restructuring and Insolvency and he has advised arrangers and SPVs in relation to the Jersey aspects of work outs of financial assets – including structured finance portfolios – and secured real estate lending.
Memberships
Law Society of Jersey
Education
Solicitor of the Royal Court of the Island of Jersey, 2001
Diploma in Legal Practice Nottingham Law School, 1996
LLB (Hons) University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1995
Lawyer Rankings
Jersey > Banking and finance
(Leading partners)Appleby
provides ‘commercial and concise advice’ across a spectrum of financing mandates, with particular expertise in real estate and fund financing, in addition to refinancing work. Heading up the team is James Gaudin, whose practice is focused primarily on asset and real estate financing and securitisations. Simon Felton, who arrived from Ogier in July 2023, acts for private equity and private credit clients on the acquisitions of infrastructure and financial services targets, which are also sectors Iain Millar is well versed in. Daniel Healy is sought after by lenders providing facilities for real estate and fund acquisitions.
Jersey > Capital markets
(Leading partners)Appleby is adept at both listings on TISE and the issuance of CLOs, advising clients from across the firm’s network on EU-compliant structures. Andrew Weaver
oversees the practice, with Jersey managing partner James Gaudin handling structured finance facilities. Paul Worsnop and Tom Vibert are the key contacts for all matters tied to CLOs, while also handling a wide range of structured finance transactions. Simon Felton joined the group from Ogier in June 2023, specialising in advising securities issuers with debt and equity transactions, with Christophe Kalinauckas focusing on bond listings on TISE.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Jersey > Banking and finance
- Leading partners Jersey > Capital markets
- Banking and finance Jersey
- Capital markets Jersey