Moderator, Simon Jewkes

Simon is a Principal in our Strategy and Transactions practice based in New York and serves as Grant Thornton’s National Managing Principal for the Retail industry. He focuses on bringing the firm’s Advisory, Audit and Tax services to private equity and corporate clients and has worked on more than 200 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 across the Consumer and Retail industry and PE clients have included Eurazeo Brands, Mistral Equity, Tengram, TZP Group, Vintage Capital and Alleghany Capital. Corporate clients that Simon has worked for include Franchise Group Inc, Estee Lauder, Church and Dwight, Target, Vitamin Shoppe and Dicks Sporting Goods and he has recent experience of working with SPAC’s. Simon's specialization includes QoE 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.