Simon Ellis
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Investment Management
- Fund Formation
- Private Funds Liquidity Solutions
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Credit Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Institutional Investors
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Seeding Transactions
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Advises leading private fund sponsors on a wide range of investment management matters.
- Advises on an array of structured secondary transactions.
- Advises investors on primary and secondary investments in private funds across sectors, including private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure, among other industries.
Simon advises prominent private fund sponsors on fundraisings and the ongoing maintenance of funds, with a focus on European mid-market and emerging-market funds. Simon represents fund sponsors, managers and investors, including sovereign wealth funds, on fund formations and capital deployments worldwide.
Simon advises on an array of matters and transactions spanning sectors, including private equity (PE), credit, real estate, special situations and infrastructure. He regularly advises LP clients on investments into private funds and managed accounts, and co-investments.
In addition to his work in respect of primary investments, Simon also advises clients on the secondary acquisition and sale of fund interests and on a range of structured secondary transactions, including rollover secondaries, tender offers and general partner (GP)-led restructurings.
- Advised a Swedish fund manager on a “one and done” fundraising for a €950-million PE fund.
- Acted as lead adviser to a leading, growth-focused PE manager in relation to a continuation fund transaction and the simultaneous acquisition of an add-on investment.
- Represented a Swedish fund manager on the raising of its growth capital fund, including the first investment by one of its investors, the European Investment Fund, to form part of the joint European Commission and EIF European Scale-up Action for Risk Capital (ESCALAR) program.
- Advises one of the most active sovereign wealth investors in its investments in PE, credit, real estate, special opportunities and infrastructure funds, co-investments and managed accounts.
- Advised a leading Central European fund manager on a cross-fund transaction involving two of the manager’s flagship funds and a secondary pool of capital.
EducationL.P.C., The College of Law, Guildford, 2012
GDL, BPP University Law School, England, 2009
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Manchester, 2008
L.P.C., The College of Law, Guildford, 2012
GDL, BPP University Law School, England, 2009
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Manchester, 2008
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
- Chambers UK, Investment Funds: Private Equity, 2025.
- The Legal 500 UK, Private Funds, 2022.