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Ben Neary

Trowers & Hamlins LLP

Ben Newton

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Ben Newton

Ben is an Associate in the Guernsey office. He has advised on a number of cases in Guernsey, as well as cross-jurisdictional matters, involving our areas of expertise including: contentious risk and regulatory matters; contentious trusts; insolvency and restructuring; debt enforcement; and corporate, director and shareholder disputes. Ben previously gained experience at the firm as a paralegal and trainee solicitor where he completed seats in the firm's Corporate, Finance and Funds, International Private Client and Trusts and UK Property teams, as well as the Dispute Resolution team.

Collas Crill

Ben Olivas

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Ben Orlanski

Ben Orlanski is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Capital Markets Group. Ben focuses on major corporate transactions and strategically solving critical business challenges. He has significant experience in securities and public company representation; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets transactions; special committee, board of directors and general corporate representation; and corporate governance. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including software-as-a-service, REITs, digital media, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Capital Formation and Securities Ben has significant experience in managing, structuring and executing sophisticated securities and capital raising transactions. His approach reflects understanding of market operation, well-designed capital structure and the practical realities of the capital raising process. He represents public companies and investors in public offerings, registered direct transactions, self-tenders, warrant exchanges/flush transactions, recapitalizations, defensive strategies and secondary offerings. He also advises clients on corporate finance transactions for private businesses, ranging from venture capital and private placements to public offerings and debt restructurings. Mergers and Acquisitions Ben has completed scores of transactions representing buyers, sellers, investment bankers and financiers through all phases of the M&A process. He is actively involved in planning, structuring, negotiating and documenting strategic merger and acquisition transactions as well as dispositions of sophisticated enterprises. General Counsel, Public Reporting and Strategic Advice Ben acts as outside general counsel for numerous public and private companies, applying a business-like approach to produce practical legal solutions to both day-to-day and exceptional legal challenges. In representing his public clients, Ben has successfully guided the public reporting process for clients facing accounting and SEC challenges, proxy contests, cash flow issues, litigation, shareholder activism and strategic alternatives. He frequently advises on issues related to compliance with insider trading laws and major compliance challenges. He also represents boards of directors and special committees of public companies in special situations, including “interested” transactions, investigations, executive succession planning and sensitive corporate governance issues.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Ben Pariser

Ben is a Partner and has worked extensively for residential, commercial and mixed-use developers throughout his career, as well as a number of local authorities, regional development agencies and registered providers. Ben’s development project work includes the drafting and negotiation of multi-phase, multi-conditional development agreements, collaboration and joint venture agreements (including public/private JVs), remediation conditions, overage provisions, land assembly, asset management, acquisitions and disposals. He regularly advises on the contractual framework and heads of terms at the project outset, then drafts and negotiates the various agreements, incorporating all necessary outputs, milestones, key performance indicators, clawback, security, overage and step-in provisions. He is adept at anticipating, identifying and thereafter mitigating public law and other risk factors such as state aid, vires, best value, procurement and governance issues. Ben's recent projects have included: •Working on behalf of a consortium of PLC residential developer in the strategic acquisition of a 3,000 unit new urban extension; •Working on behalf of a consortium of PLC residential developer in the strategic acquisition of a site for a 1,000 unit new neighbourhood; •Working on behalf of a PLC residential developer and a registered provider in their joint venture acquisition of a complex brownfield regeneration site from the HCA; •Working on behalf of a residential developer on a number of equity and debt funded acquisitions of immediate land. Ben has also advised high-street lenders in development projects and investment transactions, and so, when acting for the borrower or public sector partner, is adept at identifying the bank's likely requirements. Ben's experience includes mixed use regeneration schemes, hotels, restaurants, leisure facilities, offices, warehouses, supermarkets, industrial units, motorway service stations, residential / affordable housing developments and educational establishments.

Shoosmiths LLP

Ben Pariser

Ben is a Partner and has worked extensively for residential, commercial and mixed-use developers throughout his career, as well as a number of local authorities, regional development agencies and registered providers. Ben’s development project work includes the drafting and negotiation of multi-phase, multi-conditional development agreements, collaboration and joint venture agreements (including public/private JVs), remediation conditions, overage provisions, land assembly, asset management, acquisitions and disposals. He regularly advises on the contractual framework and heads of terms at the project outset, then drafts and negotiates the various agreements, incorporating all necessary outputs, milestones, key performance indicators, clawback, security, overage and step-in provisions. He is adept at anticipating, identifying and thereafter mitigating public law and other risk factors such as state aid, vires, best value, procurement and governance issues. Ben's recent projects have included: •Working on behalf of a consortium of PLC residential developer in the strategic acquisition of a 3,000 unit new urban extension; •Working on behalf of a consortium of PLC residential developer in the strategic acquisition of a site for a 1,000 unit new neighbourhood; •Working on behalf of a PLC residential developer and a registered provider in their joint venture acquisition of a complex brownfield regeneration site from the HCA; •Working on behalf of a residential developer on a number of equity and debt funded acquisitions of immediate land. Ben has also advised high-street lenders in development projects and investment transactions, and so, when acting for the borrower or public sector partner, is adept at identifying the bank's likely requirements. Ben's experience includes mixed use regeneration schemes, hotels, restaurants, leisure facilities, offices, warehouses, supermarkets, industrial units, motorway service stations, residential / affordable housing developments and educational establishments.

Shoosmiths

Ben Parry-Smith

Ben is a Partner in the Family department. Ben does family law because he cares about fairness, families and the children affected by relationship breakdown. He also enjoys the intellectual challenges: whether tackling trusts, difficult valuation issues or complex medical evidence. Oxford educated, Mishcon trained and Shackleton honed; Ben advises on all aspects of family law as calmly, clearly and cheerfully as possible: children, divorce/civil partnership, co-habitation, pre/post nuptial agreements, complex financial disputes and jurisdictional issues. Much of his work has an international element. Ben is described as “sharp and thoughtful, with an inventive mind which looks for and finds creative but positive solutions to the cases that he is involved in.” He has dealt with abductions, the relocation of children and on matters involving same-sex parents. Ben has experience of dealing with cases where decision-making capacity is an issue and often acts in cases involving trusts (for beneficiaries, claimants or the trustees themselves). Ben has worked on the leading case involving “special contribution”, as part of the team representing HRH Princess Haya and recently on a case where his client received far more than half the substantial marital pot to meet her needs. He has a broad practice and experience at all court levels. He is one of a handful of lawyers doing heavy weight financial and complex children work. He has considerable experience addressing domestic abuse of all types and in obtaining injunctions. Ben is familiar with Sharia family law concepts. Over the years, he has acted for all sorts of people in all sorts of predicaments from all over the world. Ben read law at Merton College, Oxford. He trained at Mishcon de Reya and joined Payne Hicks Beach on qualification in 2008. He became a partner in 2018. Between 2009 and 2013 Ben delivered a legal aid and legal skills training project at the National University of Rwanda. Ben has recently led a cross-profession and multidisciplinary initiative to assist vulnerable clients and those working with them. He is listed in all the major directories including the Spear’s Family Lawyers Index.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Ben Peecock

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Ben Pickup

Ben Pickup is a partner in Flint Bishop’s Real Estate team, specialising in complex property transactions and development projects. He advises clients across the property lifecycle, from site promotion and acquisition through financing, lettings, and ultimate investment disposal. He has particular expertise in retail and residential developments and works with investors, developers, and family wealth clients.

Flint Bishop

Ben Player

Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/ben-player/

TLT

Ben Posford

Partner & Head of Catastrophic Injuries

Osbornes

Ben Rapinoja

Partner Ben Rapinoja is a renowned litigator in patent, trademark and intellectual property matters in Finland and an expert in the field of intellectual property, technology law and Market Court proceedings. Ben advises on contractual and licensing arrangements, brands and marketing law related matters, commercial disputes, and corporate transactions in electronics and high-tech industries. His expertise also covers legal issues related to the pharmaceutical industry, health technology and life science sectors. Ben has extensive experience in patent and intellectual property litigation as well as in contractual disputes and arbitration proceedings concerning ICT and high-tech companies. Ben heads the firm’s Intellectual Property team.

Borenius

Ben Rayner

Ben is Of Counsel in the Debt Finance Group and advises financial institutions, sponsors, funds and corporates on a range of domestic and cross-border financings. Ben has extensive experience advising lenders, borrowers and sponsors on a variety of financing transactions, including fund financing (subscription, asset backed and hybrid facilities), leveraged and acquisition financing and corporate lending. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Ben worked for international law firms in London and has experience on secondment to the legal teams of an alternative asset manager and an investment bank.

Arthur Cox LLP

Ben Riding

Senior Attorney

The Law Firm of Salah Al-Hejailan in association with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Ben Roberts

Ben leads the transactional tax team and is a partner in the RPC Corporate group. He is an expert in all manner of corporate tax matters, and regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations. His specialities include stamp duty, stamp duty land tax, VAT, share schemes, W&I insurance, and tax liability insurance. Ben acts for a wide range of clients, including companies of all sizes, W&I insurers, and high-net-worth individuals, who he advises on the UK tax treatment of their investments.

RPC

Ben Robins

Ben is a partner with extensive experience in investment funds, offshore capital markets and structured finance. Funds work: Ben has advised fund promoters including Accent Equity, Actera, Alpha Associes Conseil, Bancroft Private Equity, Investors in Private Equity, Kingsbridge Capital, Mercapital, Natixis, Northzone Ventures, Priveq Advisory, Scope Growth, W.L. Ross and Zurmont Madison (all private equity/VC) and Schroder, Legal & General, Grosvenor, Hermes, Goodman Group, UNITE Group plc, Catalyst and White Peak (all real estate). Finance work: Ben has advised on many large securitisation, repackaging and tier-1 capital transactions, including MTN and commercial paper programmes, for financial institutions such as HSBC, Credit Suisse International, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, HypoVereinsbank, West LB, Erste Bank, Helaba and Deutsche Postbank AG. Ben’s finance practice also includes work on high-value structured finance and real estate finance transactions. What the directories say: Ben is recommended in the International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers, 2014; Ben Robins provides ‘remarkable service’ (Legal 500, 2013); clients commend the advocate for being ‘sensible, pragmatic and commercial’ (Chambers UK, 2013).

Mourant

Ben Robinson

Ben is a partner in the real estate litigation team and leads the team’s fire safety practice. He works closely with institutional landlords, investment funds and social housing providers in relation to policy level guidance on fire safety strategy across their portfolios, and provides ongoing advice in relation to the Government’s Non-ACM Building Safety Fund. Ben offers holistic landlord and tenant advice regarding the effective management of their portfolios, including on development disputes, breaches of covenant, forfeiture and the recovery of arrears. His expertise also extends to providing comprehensive advice on complex residential property issues including rent and service charge disputes (most recently the Supreme Court case of Aviva v Williams), enfranchisement claims, party wall disputes, boundary disputes and adverse possession claims. Ben also specialises in property-related professional negligence claims and vacant possession strategies for large-scale development sites. He has spoken at a number of events, such as the National Housing Federation’s annual ‘Leaseholder and Tenant Service Charges’ conference, and the Asset Management Conference (Housing Quality Network), where he leads peer-to-peer discussions on service charges and fire safety works, discussing apportioning and charging for fire safety improvements. Separately, he regularly contributes to articles on the issue (including a fire safety podcast for the leading real estate publication, Estates Gazette), together with seminars and bespoke training sessions for clients and other property professionals.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Ben Rogers

Partner in the Personal Injury department. Ben specialises in acting for claimants in catastrophic personal injury claims, and has particular expertise in spinal cord, brain, complex orthopaedic, amputee and burns injuries. He has a particular interest in technology and was the first lawyer to secure landmark awards of damages for the purchase and replacement of REX and Ekso GT exoskeletons. Ben has a proven record of successfully litigating complex liability and quantum claims arising from road traffic accidents, employers’ liability, occupiers’ liability and military claims and is recognised for maximising damages recovery for technological advances. Cases on which Ben has advised claimants include: Astrit Tafa v Matsim Properties & Ors, which resulted in piercing the corporate veil so as to obtain judgment for damages against a director of a company. This was vitally important because the company was uninsured but the director was personally wealthy. The high-profile case of Robert Uren v (1) Corporate Leisure (UK) Limited (2) Ministry of Defence, resulting in judgment for damages against both defendants on a 100% basis for the serious spinal injuries that the claimant suffered as a result of diving into an inflatable pool during an “It’s a Knock Out” style event. Dale Messenger v Ministry of Defence – acting on behalf of a serviceman who suffered serious spinal injuries during a live ammunition training exercise in the Falkland Islands. The claimant recovered 100% damages including in excess of £550,000 to cover the cost of an Ekso GT exoskeleton with its replacement and associated costs over the course of his lifetime, a first in this jurisdiction. Barnes v (1) David Ord (2) EUI Ltd (trading as Admiral Insurance). This case was a worldwide first (according to REX Bionics), as damages were recovered to cover the cost of a REX exoskeleton walking device for home rehabilitation, its replacement and associated costs over the claimant’s lifetime. Mark Polllock v (1) Enda Cahill (2) Madeline Cahill, an important case in the field of domestic occupiers’ liability. Damages were recovered on a 100% basis for a blind claimant who was rendered paraplegic when he fell from the window of a second-storey bedroom. It was established at trial that the window had been left open by the defendants without them giving the claimant any warning that they had done so.

Stewarts Law LLP

Ben Rogers

Ben is a Partner in the Energy - Oil & Gas group, and acts for energy companies on all types of commercial matters across Canada and internationally. He has considerable experience in a diverse range of energy-related matters, including acquisitions and divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, the structuring of joint venture agreements, midstream matters, project development, and the management of the legal aspects of day-to-day oil and gas and commercial matters. Ben also has considerable experience in both conventional and non-conventional oil and gas development, as well as in the East Coast offshore.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Ben Rose

Norton Rose Fulbright

Ben Rose

Ben Rose is Hickman & Rose's founding partner. He has spent over 30 years representing individual and corporate clients facing the most serious allegations of wrongdoing. An expert strategic litigator, Ben's skills extend beyond criminal and regulatory matters into extradition, Unexplained Wealth Orders, Production Orders, Confiscation and Forfeiture proceedings and working closely with foreign lawyers on multi-jurisdictional matters. Ben is acutely aware of the importance of reputation for his clients and has these concerns at the heart of his strategy. Ben frequently acts for corporations and individuals caught up in fraud investigations by law enforcement agencies such as the Serious Fraud Office, National Crime Agency, and the Financial Conduct Authority. He has a high success rate in these matters, frequently persuading the authorities not to pursue matters beyond the initial investigation stage. Clients include News Corporation, global banks, as well as senior individuals at BAT, Olympus, Deutsche Bank, HP/Autonomy and Macmillan Publishing and many other major companies. Ben has achieved significant successes for clients accused of fraud related to alleged -IBOR rate manipulation. In 2025 the Supreme Court quashed his client Carlo Palombo’s conviction for conspiracy to defraud in relation to EURIBOR: a ruling which, as well as righting a six-year miscarriage of justice, has ground-breaking significance for future SFO and other white collar prosecutions. Prior to this, Ben’s Barclays LIBOR client Ryan Reich was acquitted following a criminal trial; and UBS trader Panagiotis Koutsogiannis successfully defended regulatory misconduct proceedings before the FCA's Regulatory Decisions Committee. Ben’s regulatory expertise has seen him represent former Banque Havilland employee Vladimir Bolelyy in an Upper Tribunal challenge to the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee. Ben has long experience defending against allegations of overseas bribery, particularly in the extractive industries. Current clients include senior individuals in the long-running SFO investigation into alleged corruption at the Kazakh mining group ENRC. Ben also acts for companies facing criminal charges. He has defended clients accused of corporate manslaughter and is currently acting for ITH Pharma in relation to serious health and safety offences. Ben has advised many major English and US law firms on their disclosure obligations under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Hickman & Rose's success is built on an intimate understanding of every aspect of the criminal justice system, from police station to the Supreme Court. Ben draws on this deep well of experience when advising his private clients. Ben routinely represents professional people who find themselves caught up in criminal matters that, if not handled with great care, can ruin lives. He takes strategic control from the earliest stage to steer a matter towards the best outcome. He has achieved significant success persuading the police either not to arrest, or to bring an investigation to an end before the charging stage. Ben is acutely aware of the reputational impact of being involved in any criminal matter. His clients value the way he quickly grasps this aspect of their cases. He has developed strategies to handle the most sensitive matters in a way that avoids negative publicity. Many of Ben's clients in this area remain anonymous. Ben has provided specialist legal advice to numerous individuals in relation to Operation Yewtree and 'Me Too' type sex offence allegations. Many of these cases have been disposed with the minimum - or even no - resulting publicity. His recent clients in this area include one of the best-known performers in the world, and a world-famous musician. Many of Ben's criminal cases straddle jurisdictions. He is expert in setting overall legal strategy and co-ordinating lawyers working across the globe. Ben has an extensive track record representing High Net Worth and high-profile clients such as politicians, celebrities and their families in relation to a range of legal matters, both criminal and regulatory. In 2025 Ben represented the musician Chris Brown, charged with various serious violent offences shortly before starting a global tour. Contrary to general opinion, famous people often find their high public profile a disadvantage in legal matters. Not only are the reputational risks greater, but law enforcement agencies have been known to focus on high profile suspects simply because of who they are. Ben has long experience of working in this area. He knows what may happen, and how best to mitigate against it. Ben routinely advises his HNW clients on the implications of the Criminal Finances Act for offshore wealth including what to expect from Unexplained Wealth Order legislation, and how best to react when a UWO arrives. He also advises on money laundering and POCA matters. The nature of Ben's work in this area means many of his clients’ identities are not in the public domain. Those who are include the artist David Hockney, the former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos and the businessman Hans Kristian Rausing. Ben often acts in the highest profile and significant extradition matters. He successfully prevented the Kyrgyz businessman Maxim Bakiev from being extradited to the US and for a Pakistani business tycoon in his US extradition case, as well as for former Credit Suisse broker Surjan Singh in his US extradition matter.

Hickman & Rose

Ben Rosen

Ben, the head of the Private Wealth & Tax team, is a versatile and commercial-thinking Partner who brings to Quastels a broad range of experience in advising individuals, families and companies, both UK and international, on UK tax, trust and succession planning matters. His expertise includes tax advice on: Real estate Shares (acquiring, owning and disposing company shares) and partnership Wills, trusts and Lasting Powers of Attorney Residence and domicile issues Lifetime tax planning Pre-arrival tax planning for international individuals and families Cryptocurrencies, NFTs and digital landscape Ben is a member of the Law Society’s Tech London Advocates Blockchain Working Group. Ben has a commercial and personal outlook in his approach to technical issues faced by individuals and families, seeking to find a sensitive balance between the human and financial considerations faced by many clients.

Quastels LLP

Ben Rouse

Ben is an Associate at Littler and has experience across a broad spectrum of employment law matters including litigation, investigations, data protection, advisory and transactional support.

Littler