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Simon Grimshaw
Partner Corporate & Finance
Birmingham
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Simon advises clients on all aspects of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on growth capital, private equity and complex and cross border mergers and acquisitions.
Simon has a wealth of experience advising sponsors on growth capital and private equity investments into high-technology businesses, particularly in regulated sectors including life sciences and financial services. During 2020 and 2021 Simon spent eleven months on secondment to a leading global investment bank, advising on numerous growth capital and emerging markets transactions.
Simon is one of the founding lawyers of our Birmingham office and has practiced abroad, having also spent seven months seconded to the Shanghai office of an international law firm. Simon began his career in Law, following three years working in the Loss Control and Risk Management team of a global car hire firm.
Representative experience
Supponor on its sale to Bruin Capital-backed TGI Sport, a global leader in sports technology and media rights.
Sales-i on its sale to Accel-KKR-backed software company SugarCRM; the acquisition came nearly a year after SugarCRM announced a partnership with Sales-i.
Ventiga Capital on its sale of Infare, a key provider of competitor air travel data, to Vitruvian Partners portfolio company OAG, the world’s leading data platform for the global travel industry.
Advising NASDAQ listed Akamai Technologies on the acquisition of Ondat, a cloud-based storage technology provider located in London.
Advising the German blue chip Sartorius on various venture capital investment in the US, the UK and Germany.
Advising Go1 on its acquisition of SME learning technology business, Blinkist; and its acquisition of Anders Pink, an AI technology business.
Acting for Lynwood Investors on its disposal of Waterstones.
Acting for EQT on its disposal of Blizoo Bulgaria to Telekom Austria.
Acting for InvestIndustrial on its disposal to Europcar of Goldcar.
Acting for Welocalize on its acquisition of SearchStar.
Acting for Alpha Private Equity portfolio company IPCOM on its acquisition of AIS Technical.
Acting for Ventiga Capital Partners on numerous matters, including its management buy out of Retail Insights.
Advising a leading global investment bank on numerous growth capital, emerging markets and strategic investments.
Credentials
Education
- B.A. (Hons), University of Nottingham, 2004
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales
Publications
Insights and Analysis
04 July 2023
News
Press releases
12 August 2024
Press releases
23 May 2024
Press releases
04 January 2024