Ben Wilkinson > Baker McKenzie > Stockholm, Sweden > Lawyer Profile

Baker McKenzie
VASAGATAN 7, FLOOR 8
PO BOX 180
101 23 STOCKHOLM
Sweden
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Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

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.

Languages

English

Education

  • Oxford University (St. Edmund Hall) (MA, Jurisprudence) (2001)

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Acquisition finance

Instructed by a fairly balanced mix of sponsors, corporates and lenders, Baker McKenzie has developed excellent awareness of the commercial drivers and what is “market” on both the creditor and debtor sides. As well as being skilled at advising on big-ticket bank and bond financings, the team is also very well-versed at advising on private credit funded deals where it is adept at handling a myriad of products including super senior, unitranche and first out/last out. Nick O’Grady has a versatile lender-side practice that includes work for banking syndicates as well as direct lenders, while for borrower instructions Matthew Cox is a popular choice among private equity sponsors on cross-border mid-market deals. Ben Wilkinson co-heads the team alongside O’Grady and Cox.