Collas Crill

Financial Services and Regulatory

Ben is an Advocate and Senior Associate in the Financial Services and Regulatory team.

Ben advises on all aspects of commercial law with a particular focus on banking and finance (including real estate finance, Islamic finance and fund finance), mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.  Ben regularly works with our BVI, Cayman and Jersey corporate and trust teams on cross-jurisdictional finance, corporate and trust matters.

Ben also assists the Corporate, Finance and Funds team in their other core areas including funds, data protection and risk and regulatory.

Ben first joined Collas Crill as a paralegal and went on to train with the firm, qualifying as a Solicitor of England & Wales in September 2017.

During his training contract Ben undertook a three month secondment to CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP in London in their Banking and International Finance team. During his time at CMS, Ben worked primarily on the acquisition, development, restructuring and financing of projects in the real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources sectors.

Ben read law at the University of Bristol, graduating with First Class Honours, and went on to complete his Legal Practice Course at BPP University Law School.

He was promoted to Senior Associate in August 2022 and was admitted to the Guernsey Bar in December 2022.

English

Guernsey International Legal Association Guernsey Investment Fund Association

LLB (University of Bristol, 2013); LPC (BPP University, 2015)

Magic and surfing.