Benjamin Lyon is an English - and New Zealand-qualified international counsel in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group.

Mr. Lyon focuses on corporate transactions in the insurance and asset management industries, including mergers & acquisitions, regulatory matters and corporate governance, as well as all other aspects of corporate law, with significant experience in acting on a wide range of public and private transactions, capital markets transactions, joint ventures and other transactions both in the UK and internationally. He regularly advises insurers, asset managers, corporates, private equity clients and investment banks.

Mr. Lyon graduated from Auckland University in 2002 with degrees in Law and Commerce (Finance and Accounting).

Mr. Lyon was admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales in 2012 and a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2002.