Simon Cook

Partner, Sullivan & Worcester UK

Simon Cook is a partner in Sullivan & Worcester’s Trade & Export Finance Group. He has experience in a wide variety of banking and finance transactions, including structured trade finance, trade finance, digitalised/electronic trade finance, commodity finance, project finance, invoice discounting, warehouse finance, supply chain finance, ECA finance and borrowing-base facilities. He has advised on transactions across the emerging markets with particular experience in Africa and in the Middle East, where he was based for four years. A member of the Executive Board of the International Trade Finance Association (ITFA), in 2021, Simon was appointed its Head of Education. In November 2019, Simon was re-appointed as one of just eight full voting members on ITFA’s African Regional Committee, of which he was also a founding member in 2017. Simon is recognised as a Leading Individual in The Legal 500 UK 2024 for Trade Finance and included in Tier 1 by Chambers UK 2024 for Commodities: Trade Finance. He is also included in Best Lawyers UK 2024 for his work in commodities.