Mourant continues to receive praise regarding its banking and finance teams, advising on leveraged acquisition finance, fund finance, and asset finance, working with many of the leading private equity sponsors and private credit funds. From a corporate and investment funds perspective, the team remains a key figure for intricate private equity, acquisitions, privatisations, mergers, and investment fund formation matters in the region. Senior Partner, Asia, Paul Christopher provides crucial leadership to the corporate and investment funds team. Managing partner Danielle Roman heads the firm’s leading banking & finance practice. Simon Lawrenson‘s practice spans the full range of debt products, including acquisition and leveraged finance, as well as real estate and asset finance. Justine Lau helps guide clients through challenging restructuring and insolvency issues.
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Finance and Corporate
Position
Simon is a Partner and Global Practice Leader of the Mourant Finance and Corporate team. He has significant experience in banking and finance transactions, with an emphasis on acquisition finance.
Simon's practice focuses on advising leading international lenders, sponsors and borrowers on a wide range of cross-border transactions, including event-driven acquisition and leveraged finance, asset finance (with a particular focus on shipping and aircraft finance), real estate financing, pre-IPO financing, trade financing, integrated debt and equity financing, debt restructuring, OTC derivatives and structured products, security enforcement, and project and energy finance.
He also advises on mainstream corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, general corporate advisory and voluntary liquidations.
Career
Prior to joining Mourant in 2012, Simon worked for Linklaters in London and Hong Kong, and Maples and Calder in the British Virgin Islands.
Education
- Solicitor, England and Wales (currently non-practising)
- Solicitor, the British Virgin Islands
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Testimonials
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‘They pride themselves on being partner-led, with a very strong technical team, which is equipped to advise on the largest and most complex deals in the market.'
‘Danielle Roman is proactively curious about the challenges faced by clients and takes a tailored and personalised approach to her relationships. When it comes to fund finance, she is the most experienced offshore fund finance lawyer in the Asian fund finance space.'
‘Justine Lau is a good litigator, responsive and commercial.’
‘The team is very responsive, technically good and has a very good understanding of the market and the key trends as they emerge.’
‘James Broad is excellent. He is technically very good; he is responsive and available when needed and delivers great service.’
‘Very responsive. Hands on across the board. Great collaboration.’
Key clients
- Crédit Agricole CIB
- China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited
- Natixis
- CBC Group
- Superscrypt
- Prenetics Global Limited
- LakeShore Biopharma Co Ltd
- Wavemaker Partners
- MicroBit Capital Management
Work highlights
Acted as joint Cayman counsel for Crédit Agricole CIB and China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited in respect of CALC's inaugural US$400 million warehouse facility provided by BNP Paribas.
Advised Hollysys Automation Technologies on the BVI law aspects in relation to its USD1.66 billion privatisation by Ascendent Capital Partners.
Act for each of the Receivers, the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Green Heaven, and August Gold in their capacities as receivers of shares of various BVI companies.