Leon Simson

Leon is a member of Tonkon Torp's Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Services, and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups. He is an experienced corporate and business restructuring attorney. Leon represents corporate clients in a wide range of business matters, including finance, license agreements, customer and supplier issues, equipment purchasing and financing, acquisitions and divestitures, and shareholder and director issues.

He has represented purchasers in several transactions in which businesses were purchased from various debtors. The purchased businesses included four steel foundries, an electric power plant, a pulp mill, an RV manufacturer, a cab company, and two printing companies.

Leon's extensive experience also includes advising clients in complex, court-supervised bankruptcy cases, as well as out-of-court restructurings and workouts.

From 1975-76 he served as a law clerk to the Oregon Supreme Court. Leon was listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 1987-2020 for his work in bankruptcy and from 2013-2020 for his work in corporate law.