Simone A. Randolph

Simone is a partner in the Financial Services & Restructuring Group. She focuses on representing clients in a wide range of complex financing transactions, including syndicated, mezzanine and construction financing. She also advises lenders on loan purchases, sales, restructurings, and modifications. Simone has represented lending institutions and borrowers in thousands of financing transactions throughout the country.

Additionally, Simone has significant experience advising clients in sophisticated real estate matters, including, but not limited to, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, ground leasing, and property and facilities management issues and disputes.

Taking a collaborative approach to client service, Simone provides creative and strategic solutions to challenges inherent to complex transactions.

Simone earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in Political Science and Spanish, magna cum laude, from Duke University. Among other awards and recognitions, she was recognized as a Notable Rising Star in Law in 2021 by Crain’s Chicago Business. In 2023, she was recognized as a Notable Women in the Law by Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

Active in the Chicago community, Simone serves on the board of the Women’s Bar Foundation, which provides scholarships to young women pursuing law degrees. She is also an executive board member and board vice chair of the Chicago Loop Alliance, which works to promote and support businesses and revitalize the city’s central business district.

In her spare time, Simone enjoys learning new languages, finding new fitness challenges, traveling as much as possible, and exploring the outdoors.