Travers Smith poaches Simon Witney from Debevoise & Plimpton

With experience in regulatory, transactional and fund formation disciplines, Witney will be part of the team specialising in servicing clients in the international private capital market across those practice areas.

Witney had been a special counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton since 2017. He joined the firm following a 16-year stint at SJ Berwin (later King Wood & Mallesons).

Witney has also served in senior positions at trade associations over the years. He is currently a member of the council of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), and previously chaired its legal and accounting committee. He is a past chair of Invest Europe's tax, legal and regulatory committee, and a current member of its professional standards committee and financial services regulatory working group. He has also been a member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association's legal & regulatory council.

Witney is a visiting professor in practice in the law department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also teaches a course on private equity law on the LLM programme.

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