Simeon Gilchrist
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Restructuring/Insolvency: Personal Insolvency
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About
Provided by Simeon Gilchrist
Practice Areas
Restructuring & Insolvency
Career
With both contentious and transactional insolvency expertise, Simeon advises insolvency practitioners, banks, distressed companies and individuals in a wide range of both corporate and personal insolvency matters. His corporate transactional work has an administration bias with the preparation of business sales being a particular specialism. In personal insolvency matters, Simeon has a specialist European Regulation practice, advising individuals, practitioners and creditors on the application of the European Regulation and what is known as COMI shifting or bankruptcy tourism.
Simeon has edited and written works on Company Meetings in insolvency proceedings and the disqualification legislation for directors. He also lectures to insolvency practitioners and lawyers both in England and abroad on procedural and substantive elements of insolvency law and practice.
Having been a member of R3 for many years he was delighted to be elected to Council and served as Chair of the Small Practices Group for five years.
Simeon read Law with French at Leicester and Strasbourg universities, qualifying as a solicitor in 1992.
Professional Memberships
R3 Association of Business Recovery Professionals
INSOL Europe
Chambers Review
UK
Simeon Gilchrist is experienced in handling significant bankruptcies and individual voluntary arrangements, often acting for clients such as debtors, trustees and insolvency practitioners. Gilchrist also has expertise in matters related to pension rights and EU discrimination.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Simeon is passionate about the technicalities and thinks strategically to drill into the details. He is an experienced practitioner, particularly on the contentious side of things."
"Simeon is experienced and has an encyclopedic knowledge of insolvency."
"Simeon is highly responsive and technically excellent. He's a sophisticated thinker who always brings something to complex situations."
"Simeon is passionate about the technicalities and thinks strategically to drill into the details. He is an experienced practitioner, particularly on the contentious side of things."
"Simeon is experienced and has an encyclopedic knowledge of insolvency."
"Simeon is highly responsive and technically excellent. He's a sophisticated thinker who always brings something to complex situations."