Nicholas L. Simon

Nicholas Simon helps companies and investors negotiate and execute corporate, finance, and commercial transactions by providing prompt and practical advice that is focused on helping clients achieve their business objectives while minimizing legal risk and expense. Nick is the chair of KMK Law’s Sports & Entertainment Industry Group and has represented numerous clients in the sports industry, including leagues, teams, owners, college conferences, and sports businesses in a range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, stadium and team debt financings, equity financings, media, apparel, naming rights, sponsorship, and other commercial matters.

Nick has extensive experience advising clients on complex mergers and acquisitions and finance and transactions across a range of industries, including sports, technology, financial services, consumer products, manufacturing, and business services. Nick has advised companies, investors, and private equity sponsors in a variety of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, and equity financing, from large public and private company acquisitions to smaller non-controlling investments and asset divestitures. He also has advised borrowers and lenders in a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition financings, syndicated and bilateral facilities, stadium financings, secured and unsecured credit facilities, and securitized, factoring and supply chain financing facilities.

Prior to joining KMK Law, Nick was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. where he advised clients on a range of corporate and finance transactions. Following law school, Nick served as a law clerk to the Hon. Karen K. Caldwell of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.