Paul Simon
Managing Partner, Cardiff
Cardiff
T +44 (0) 29 2010 0950
[email protected]
Department Real estate, Commercial property Qualified 1991 Education (University) LLB Hons Languages English
Paul is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Cardiff office. He has over 30 years of experience specialising in commercial property acquisitions and disposals, commercial landlord and tenant, commercial and residential development, and commercial property finance.
Paul acts for a wide range of leading Welsh development and investment companies.
Upon qualification in 1991, Paul trained with Simon North and Nam. He later left to form Simon and Simon in 1992, before joining Thomas Graham in 2003 and formed Thomas Simon in 2007 with Rupert Thomas. He joined the firm following its merger with Thomas Simon in 2018.
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"NEVER SACRIFICE QUALITY AND EXPERIENCE FOR PRICE."
What you may now know about Paul
Paul is a coach at one of the local Cardiff rugby clubs, coaching Youth Rugby and Under 11s.
My matter highlights
- Being Shortlisted as a finalist for the Commercial Property Team in the inaugural Welsh Legal Awards.
- Advising on the site set up and disposal of an 82 unit residential development for a local housing association.
- Disposal of a development site to a housing association for the development of 19 units and a retail unit at ground floor level.
- Part of the legal team advising the founders of the Severn Bay Barrage scheme.
My recent publications
Insights / Tax-free threshold for Land Transaction Tax increases for house purchases in Wales
16-07-2020 / Real Estate
It was announced this week that the tax-free threshold for Land Transaction Tax (“LTT”) will increase from £180,000 to £250,000 for house purchases in Wales from 27 July 2020 until 31 March 2021.
