Simon Hampton

Simon joined PwC in September 2014 in Corporate Finance and leads our Real Estate and Hotels Mergers and Acquisitions business, including debt and equity capital raising.

He is an experienced investment banker and, prior to PwC, spent c.24 years in Banking at NatWest Markets, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Jefferies & Co, where he led the Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging Investment Banking business. His experience spans all areas of real estate advisory (mergers, acquisitions, sales, valuations, fairness opinions, defence) equity capital raising (public, private and joint venture) and debt (credit ratings, public bonds, private placements and CMBS lending). In addition, Simon has been part of Corporate Broking teams covering and responsible for numerous UK public companies. He is focused on both corporates and funds as well as UK government and government agencies and has a track record with REITs, housebuilders and property service companies as well as hotel, gaming and leisure businesses. He is an FCA Certified Person and has been a member of and conference speaker with the European Public Real Estate Association, the Urban Land Institute, Global Real Estate Institute and British Property Federation.