Simon Price Partner

Simon Price is a partner in the International Dispute Resolution Practice Group of Squire Sanders and is based in the London office. He leads the contentious financial services and pensions practice in London. His extensive experience covers litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, particularly in the banking, pensions and financial services sectors, and fraud recovery, regulatory investigations and enforcement action in those sectors. Simon is an acknowledged expert in his field in Chambers UK, The Legal 500 UK and Legal Business' Legal Experts, which variously describe him as "excellent", "innovative and pragmatic", and "a client orientated partner" who "combines intellect, business acumen and good humour".

Simon has been an accredited mediator or the CEDR since 1998 and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2000.

Simon is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers and the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Representative Experience

• Advising on multimillion euro bank securitisation claims.
• Advising banks in relation to collateralised debt obligation (CDO) disputes.
• Advising an AIM market maker in a Financial Services Authority (FSA) market abuse enforcement case, the first ever market abuse case to be considered by the Court of Appeal (2010). 
• Advising creditors in the Lehman and MF Global insolvencies. 
• Advising pension trustees in connection with the Pension Regulator's first ever Financial Support Direction.
• Advising pension trustees in claims against fund managers.
• Advising defendants in connection with regulatory investigations and enforcement action.
• Advising brokers and institutions on margin defaults, fraudulent activity and related regulatory investigations.
• Advising on bribery/corruption claims relating to contracts with foreign state corporations.
• Advising in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactional disputes.