Simon Marchant is the managing partner for the firm’s Asia business and is based in Hong Kong. He specialises in UK and cross border M&A, corporate advisory and financings across a number of sectors.

Selected transactions include:

  • advising the Oppenheimer family on their and Anglo American’s $20bn take private of De Beers;
  • Eon’s $20bn offer for UK utility ScottishPower;
  • US utility PacifiCorp’s $9bn sale to Berkshire Hathaway;
  • Mannesmann’s $190bn acquisition by Vodafone;
  • US listed ntl’s $10bn bid for UK media company ITV;
  • Group 4 Falck’s €1.5bn merger with Securicor;
  • Apax/GMG's $2bn public offer for media group Emap;
  • O2 on it's demerger from BT; and
  • Pearson and The Financial Times on a number of acquisitions and disposals including of Les Echos, Financial Times Deutschland and Mergermarket.

Before taking up his role as Asia managing partner, Simon headed our energy and natural resources sector group and, before that, the telecomms, media and technology sector group. Simon was previously based in our London office for many  years and also spent time on secondment to Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York.

Contact details

simon.marchant
@freshfields.com

  • Hong Kong office
  • 11th Floor
    Two Exchange Square
    Hong Kong
  • Telephone
  • +442 0783 27552
  • Fax
  • +442 0710 87552