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Ben Traynor

Ben is a Principal Associate in the Financial Services team. Ben specialises in B2B asset finance & leasing and has advised banks, finance providers, lessors, lessees, brokers and trade bodies in connection with a diverse range of matters including: General equipment leasing (operating and finance leases, short term and long term rental arrangements, hire purchase agreements, sale and lease/hire purchase back structures, asset refinancing, staged payment and pre-facility funding, and commercial loans). Contract hire and vehicle fleet funding arrangements. Sale, purchase and financing of receivables. Stocking finance. Block discounting. Introducer and broker arrangements & disclosed/undisclosed agency funding structures. Recent experience includes: Assisting a specialist asset-based lender in streamlining and updating their customer facing HP and lease documentation suite. Assisting multiple automotive financial service providers in establishing contract hire and contract purchase product offerings. Advising an electric vehicle provider in documenting the sale of contract receivables and related vehicles to a UK based specialised asset finance funder. Advising a UK finance provider in connection with its disclosed and undisclosed product offerings relating to vehicle financing. Assisting a finance provider in connection with the restructuring of its wholesale funding stocking facility.

Shoosmiths LLP

Ben Traynor

Ben is a Principal Associate in the Financial Services team. Ben specialises in B2B asset finance & leasing and has advised banks, finance providers, lessors, lessees, brokers and trade bodies in connection with a diverse range of matters including: General equipment leasing (operating and finance leases, short term and long term rental arrangements, hire purchase agreements, sale and lease/hire purchase back structures, asset refinancing, staged payment and pre-facility funding, and commercial loans). Contract hire and vehicle fleet funding arrangements. Sale, purchase and financing of receivables. Stocking finance. Block discounting. Introducer and broker arrangements & disclosed/undisclosed agency funding structures. Recent experience includes: Assisting a specialist asset-based lender in streamlining and updating their customer facing HP and lease documentation suite. Assisting multiple automotive financial service providers in establishing contract hire and contract purchase product offerings. Advising an electric vehicle provider in documenting the sale of contract receivables and related vehicles to a UK based specialised asset finance funder. Advising a UK finance provider in connection with its disclosed and undisclosed product offerings relating to vehicle financing. Assisting a finance provider in connection with the restructuring of its wholesale funding stocking facility.

Shoosmiths

Ben Troke

Partner - Regulatory Healthcare Advisory

Weightmans LLP

Ben Turner

Ben Turner is Of Counsel in Baker McKenzie's Los Angeles office and is a member of the Firm's North American Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group. Ben is a trial and appellate litigator handling an array of complex disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants, including class actions, regulatory investigations, insurance, and securities litigation. He also frequently works with trial teams to write dispositive motions, develop trial strategies, and handle post-trial proceedings.

Baker McKenzie

Ben Turner

Ben is a Partner with over 25 years’ experience of corporate transactional and advisory work, specialising in M&A (buy-side and sell-side); PE transactions; restructurings; and fundraisings with a particular focus on Germany, the Nordics and the USA. He is regarded as an excellent contributor at board level and praised by clients for his hands-on approach to delivering complex transactions smoothly and within budget. He has particular expertise in technology, consumer, financial services and national security sectors and advises large corporates (including several PE-backed corporates), high growth businesses and entrepreneurs across these and other sectors. Recent highlights include: advising Heligan Private Equity on the establishment of their funds and on multiple investments in national security, crime prevention and public safety; advising Waterstones on a significant group restructuring of its UK businesses; advising Peloton on a UK strategic acquisition advising a listed US software business on its UK acquisition programme. Ben heads the Corporate department nationally and is responsible for the management and strategy of our venture capital & growth, private equity and M&A teams. Ben joined Shoosmiths as a partner in 2013, having previously been a partner at boutique corporate practice Hill Hofstetter (formerly part of Reed Smith). He is praised by clients as someone who “gets things done” and who builds “strong relationships with clients”.

Shoosmiths LLP

Ben Upton

Partner

Simpson Grierson

Ben Van Vlierden

Senior Counsel

Tiberghien

Ben Ward

Partner

Ashtons Legal

Ben Webster

Ben advises on a wide range of contentious tax matters for individuals, partnerships, funds, multi-nationals and FTSE-listed companies. Ben is senior counsel within the tax investigations and disputes team, and his varied practice includes advising clients on HMRC powers and enquiries, disputes before the Tax Tribunals, High Court disputes that involve tax, and the mitigation of tax risk on commercial transactions. Ben regularly advises on the technical, tactical and procedural aspects of tax investigations and disputes across the full range of direct and indirect taxes, and has been involved with cases at all levels of the UK tax tribunal and civil court system. Ben also acts in High Court litigation and judicial reviews, with a particular focus on cases involving the alleged negligence of advisors, the conduct of HMRC and claims involving mistake and rectification. Ben has experience utilising different forms of ADR to settle disputes with HMRC and commercial counterparties, and also advises on wider international and European tax issues, including the residence and domicile status of HNW individuals, the cross-border exchange of information and transfer pricing disputes. Ben is also a qualified Solicitor Advocate.

Macfarlanes LLP

Ben Whitelock

Ben is Wiggin’s Senior Partner, and has over 20 years of experience advising media and technology companies on their deals. “I have a broad range of experience advising on deals in the media and technology sectors. Typical transactions include M&A, shareholder arrangements and joint ventures, corporate venturing and venture capital and corporate re-organisations and restructurings. I’m particularly focused on deals involving technology, betting and gaming, TV and publishing/events businesses, acting for leading companies, investors and entrepreneurs in these sectors. A lot of my work has a cross-border element. Clients describe me as “pragmatic, commercial and highly competent” – working with Wiggin’s market-leading commercial and regulatory experts, I enjoy helping clients to cut through negotiations and get their deals done.”

Wiggin LLP

Ben Wilkinson

Ben Wilkinson is a Principal of Baker McKenzie based in the Firm's Stockholm office as part of the global Banking and Finance Practice, working on English law deals in the London and Scandinavian markets as well as other cross-border matters. Ben regularly advises lenders, borrowers and financial advisors in connection with the debt financing of acquisitions of public companies. Ben also acts for a variety of lender syndicates, steering committees, sponsors and companies in relation to various restructuring matters. Ben has spent extended periods on secondment at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs in their leveraged finance teams, as well as a secondment to the legal team at Goldman Sachs and a period at an international law firm's New York office. Ben is recognised as a key individual for acquisition finance and bank lending in Legal 500 UK, 2021.

Baker McKenzie

Ben Williams

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Ben Willis

Partner specialising in a broad range of construction and engineering projects, primarily in non-contentious construction law, advising on procurement, drafting and negotiation of building contracts, consultant appointments, bonds and guarantees, partnering and framework agreements, along with the construction aspects of funding agreements, joint ventures, agreements for development and lease.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Ben Willows

Managing Associate, UK and European Patent Attorney, Design Attorney

EIP

Ben Wilson

Ben is a Partner in the Will and Trust Disputes team, having joined in December 2020 from heading up the Wil and Trust Disputes team at another regional firm. Ben has been a strong addition to the team and has assisted in its growth. Ben operates in all aspects of contentious trusts and probate work. Since joining the team Ben has dealt with a number of high value and complex matters, often involving assets in multiple jurisdictions. Ben has a particular expertise in claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, where he assists clients who are in need and often vulnerable in order to secure provision from a loved one’s estate. He is tenacious in his pursuit of the right outcome for a client as quickly as possible to ensure they can move on with their lives with the provision they are entitled to. He is also acutely aware and understanding of the emotional element to disputes in this field and is able to guide clients through the process in a manner that is suitable for any given client. Ben has experience of acting as a professional litigation friend for children and protected parties in will and trust disputes.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Ben Witherall

Jones Day

Ben Wood

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Ben Wu

Director

Kain Lawyers

Ben Yap

Managing Partner

Gatmaytan Yap Patacsil Gutierrez & Protacio (C&G Law)

Ben Zhong

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Zhong not only works for multinational companies such as Visteon Corporation, Treasury Holdings and UTC and its affiliates (like Pratt & Whitney, Carrier) and Arm China in connection with their acquisitions in China, he also assists certain WOFE in connection with their offshore acquisitions. In the area of foreign direct investment, he represents Visteon Corporation and its affiliates in connection with their joint ventures with many Chinese auto giants like Dongfeng, Changan, etc. In the area of banking, he advises international banks like DBS, HSBC, Hang Sang Bank, ICBC (Asia) in connection with their lending activities involving China. In the area of real estate, he advises companies like Treasury Holdings in connection with their acquisitions of local real properties. In the field of aviation, Mr. Zhong assists clients in handling purchase, sale and financing of private jets. In the area of capital markets, Mr. Zhong assists Treasury Holdings to list a business trust on SGX which involves commercial and office properties in China.

Global Law Office

Ben Zielinski

Ben is a Principal Associate commercial litigator, qualified in both England and Wales and Scotland, who advises a number of large businesses in relation to a variety of disputes, in particular complex contractual claims and IT related disputes. This includes acting for clients involved in litigation and other forms of dispute resolution as well as proactively advising on potentially contentious matters before a formal dispute arises. As well as having strong legal analytical skills, Ben takes a highly commercial approach to disputes, making sure he understands his client's objectives at the outset of each case, in order to determine a strategy to achieve the best possible result. He always fights tenaciously for his client’s interests. Recent matters that Ben has worked on include: representing an enterprise IT services company in a number of disputes with large customers. Notable cases include: two multi-million pound claims by public sector customers (an NHS Trust and a Government Department) for alleged serious service failures, which were both settled following mediation on commercial terms that minimised the client’s financial liability while preserving the relationships with the customers; a claim against a main contractor for failure to provide work pursuant to a sub-contract. The dispute was settled following mediation, with a substantial settlement sum being paid to the client; acting for a managed office space provider in a service charge dispute with a landlord, including taking an appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session; defending an oil exploration company in a Commercial Court action raised by a joint venture partner, claiming that the client had forfeited its interest in the joint venture (a petroleum exploration and development licence). After defeating an application for summary judgment, a settlement was reached on commercial terms; representing a petroleum company in a claim against a contractor for damage to a large quantity of its product; acting for an energy sector client in a multi-million pound dispute regarding breach of confidence and infringement of database rights, culminating in a two-week trial in the High Court. Ben played a pivotal role in preparing the case for trial in only a few months, including coordinating a large electronic disclosure exercise, interviewing more than a dozen witnesses, instructing an expert forensic accountant and assisting Counsel before and during the trial.

Shoosmiths

Bena Mara

Counsel

Bredin Prat

Benan Arseven

Partner

Moroglu Arseven

Benan Arı

Founding Partner

ARI Attorneys at Law