Simon Jewkes

Simon is a Principal in our Strategy and Transactions practice based in New York. He has worked on more than 200 M&A transactions on both the buy-side and sell-side across a broad range of industry sectors in North America and Europe on deals ranging in size from $5 million up to $30 billion. Simon is our Consumer Products and Retail Transaction leader and has led teams including financial, tax, IT, HR, insurance and operational due diligence. He has broad experience working on M&A transactions across the Consumer and Retail industry with a number of PE funds, Corporates, SPAC’s and investment banks. Simon's specialization includes Quality of Earnings and profitability analyses, net working capital and net debt analysis, review of financial projections, cash flow modeling and purchase agreement consultation. Simon also has experience of cost savings and synergy analysis, merger integration, carve-out transactions, restructuring, refinancing transactions and IPO readiness. Simon also serves as the Client Relationship Leader on several key Private Equity and Corporate accounts to provide the full range of Grant Thornton’s services across Advisory, Audit and Tax.