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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 individuals)Dentons advises major financial institutions, private banks, and borrowers on domestic and cross-border real estate finance transactions; it therefore benefits from the firm’s global presence. The team is co-led by Simon Tweedle, who advises funders and borrowers on investment and development finance mandates across office, retail, residential, hotel, care home, student accommodation and shopping centres asset classes, and James Irvine, who is strong in restructuring mandates and the hotel sector. Similarly, Simon Masri also has expertise in hotel investments, and Marc Gilston joined the team from TLT in May 2021.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals - London > Real estate > Property finance
- Property finance - London > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Real estate > Environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Immigration
- 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) > Media and entertainment (including media finance)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport