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Dr Simon Witney

Senior Fellow
About

About

Dr Simon Witney is a practising lawyer who also teaches on the LLM programme at LSE. His doctoral thesis, completed at LSE in 2017, was on corporate governance in private equity-backed companies. Simon continues to research and write on corporate governance, company law and related topics.

Simon is also a Senior Consultant at London-based law firm, Travers Smith.

Simon has previously served in senior positions within the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), including as Chair of its Legal and Accounting Committee and as a member of its Council. He is also a past Chair of Invest Europe’s Tax, Legal and Regulatory Committee.