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Mr Simon Tweedle
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Simon is a partner in the Banking and Finance practice with a particular focus on real estate finance.
He advises on investment and development finance, structured finance, refinancing, restructuring, mezzanine finance, preferred equity financings, loan sales and purchases, intercreditor issues and “loan to own” scenarios. He has a wealth of experience acting for both funders and borrowers on a wide range of domestic and international real estate finance transactions covering asset classes including office, retail, residential, logistics, hotels, care homes, student accommodation and shopping centres.
Simon has focused exclusively on real estate finance for almost 20 years and is a “ranked individual” in Chambers and a “leading individual” for Property Finance in Legal 500. He is described as a “calm, commercial, efficient and smart lawyer” in Chambers 2018.
He has recently acted for clients including Castleforge, Chenavari, Cheyne Capital, Ellandi, Harrison Street Real Estate, HSBC, ICG-Longbow, International Hotel Group, McArthurGlen, Raven Russia and RBS.
Simon has spent a portion of his career working in-house in the real estate lending team at Capmark (formerly GMAC) and was also seconded for six months to the Global Banking and Markets Real Estate team at RBS. This experience helps Simon to more clearly see transactions from a client’s perspective and appreciate the commercial, as well as legal, imperatives.
Languages
Education
1994 – 1997 Sheffield University (LLB)
1997 – 1998 College of Law (LPC)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Property finance
(Leading partners)Led by James Irvine and Simon Tweedle, the ‘responsive, pragmatic and experienced’ practice at Dentons
regularly advises international clients on cross-border financing and refinancing deals concerning offices, hotels, and build-to-rent developments. Irvine often handles financings and restructurings, while Tweedle – described by clients as ‘a pleasure to deal with, responsive, pragmatic and experienced’ – recently advised a European residential real estate company on English sustainability-linked financing legislation. Simon Masri regularly advises banks, real estate developers, and investment managers on cross-border refinancing transactions. Other key figures include Jason Sheard, who advises on commercial terms for sales and purchases in leisure sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Immigration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport