Simon Kiff Bio

Simon Kiff has 20 years of experience advising clients on complex and cross-border private equity transactions. Simon heads Jones Day's corporate practice in the London Office. Simon has a particular focus on real estate private equity, across multiple sectors and asset classes, including retail, distribution, industrial, office, and hospitality assets. He regularly advises clients in establishing joint ventures, funds and other investment mandates, and on structured acquisitions and dispositions. The clients Simon has recently advised in the real estate sector include Ares, British Land, CBRE Investment Management, DV4 Limited, Delancey, GoldenTree Asset Management, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Greystar, Henderson Park, Henley Investment Management, KKR, LondonMetric Property, Oaktree Capital Management, Oxenwood Real Estate, PGGM, and Welltower. Simon has also advised on numerous cross-border M&A transactions across a variety of industries, including sports/leisure, industrials, manufacturing, consumer products, and financial services. Clients that Simon has advised include Procter & Gamble, RPC Group Plc, RPM International, Sheffield United Football Club, Sherwin-Williams, Standard Bank, and WL Ross. Simon spent six months on secondment to Goldman Sachs in London, supporting the legal team for what was then Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division.