Simmons & Simmons

The ‘well-balanced team’ at Simmons & Simmons provides ’pragmatic and responsive’ advice to banks and a growing roster of large-listed corporates across a broad swathe of corporate lending, event-driven and M&A financing. Team head Kirsty Barnes is across both creditor and debtor sides of the practice, being particularly active of late on data centre financings. Elliot Beard is also key to the firm’s success in handling corporate lending and acquisition financings, including on deals utilising sustainable financing terms. At an associate level, Erica Houlihan is a ‘reassuring pair of hands’ and Emmie Spring-Manek has ’a really good knowledge of her market’.