Edwin Godfrey, Esq

Career: admitted slr 1971; asst slr Norton Rose Botterell and Roche 1971-72; Simmons & Simmons: asst slr 1972-76, ptnr 1977-, head of commercial gp 1993-2002, int managing ptnr 1995-96, seconded as dep chief exec Private Fin Panel 1997, head of major projects 1998-2002; Int Bar Assoc: vice-chm Ctee on Anti Tst Law 1981-86, chm Sub-Ctee on Structure and Ethics of Business Law 1990-94 (vice-chm 1988-90), memb Standing Ctee on Professional Ethics 1990-, memb Cncl Section on Business Law 1994-98, memb Standing Ctee on Int Legal Practice 1995-2000 (chm 1997-2000), memb Standing Ctee on Multi-Disciplinary Practice 1995-; memb Advsy Bd Int and Comparative Law Center S Western Legal Fndn Dallas 1991; dir Shape London 1998-; hon legal advsr Hertford CAB until 1995; Freeman: City of London Solicitors' Co 1990, City of London 1991; memb: Law Soc 1971, City of London Law Soc 1990 (chm Commercial Law Sub-Ctee 1998-), Int Bar Assoc, Hertford Deanery Synod 1990-94; govr Abel Smith Jr Mixed Infants Sch Hertford 1992-2000; FRSA 1994

Books and Publications: Joint Ventures in Butterworths Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents (ed 5 edn, 1990), Law Without Frontiers (ed, 1995), Butterworths PFI Manual (jt ed, 1998)