Lawyers

Ben Robins

Ben Robins

Mourant, Jersey

Work Department

Funds, banking and finance, corporate, insolvency and restructuring.

Position

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).

Career

Trained Speechly Bircham, London, qualified as an English solicitor (currently non-practising); qualified as a Jersey solicitor 2000; joined Mourant Ozannes 1997, partner 2002, head of global funds 2008.

Memberships

Chairman of the Jersey Funds Association; Jersey Law Society; active participant in a number of finance industry working groups focusing on technical and market development projects.

Mentions

Jersey

Investment funds

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