Prior to joining White & Case, Simon worked at a leading law firm in Australia.

Representative transactions (prior to joining White & Case) include:

•  Acting for National Australia Bank as equity bridge financiers to a prominent listed property group for the acquisition and development of commercial office buildings in Brisbane, Australia;
• Acting for Babcock & Brown in its capacity as borrower under an innovative warehouse facility to finance loans made to self-managed superannuation funds for the purposes of acquiring real estate through an interposed property developer;
• Acting for Lehman Brothers Inc. as financiers in Territory Resources Limited’s A$860 million takeover bid for Consolidated Minerals Limited;
• Acting for a leading property developer in the A$100 million refinance of its existing acquisition and construction debt relating to the Chevron Hotel in Melbourne, Australia;
• Acting for a prominent property developer in the financing of a A$72 million construction facility for the development at Cammeray Square in Sydney, Australia;
• Acting for a global resources company in relation to pro-forma farm-in and joint venture terms tailored to its investment and participation strategy in Western Australian mining ventures; and
• Acting for National Australia Bank (through its subsidiary Bank of New Zealand Australia) in the financing of a A$500 million acquisition of Australian Woolworths properties by a listed property fund.

Bars and Courts
Supreme Court of Victoria, admitted 2007

Education
Bachelor of Laws, LLB (Hons), Monash University, 2005
Bachelor of Science, BSc (Hons), Monash University, 2003

Languages
English

Citizenship
Australian