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Ben Robins

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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. Ben trained with Speechly Bircham in London where he qualified as an English solicitor (currently non-practising). Funds work: Ben has advised in relation to funds for groups including Groupe Alpha, Natexis, Mercapital, Scope Growth, Northzone Ventures, W.L. Ross, Bancroft Private Equity and Investors in Private Equity (all private equity1VC) and Schroders, Legal & General, Grosvenor, Goodman Group, UNITE Group plc, Catalyst and White Peak (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 recognised and highly ranked in 'Legal 500', 'Chambers Global', 'Who's Who Legal' 2010 and 'PLC Cross-border Investment Funds' handbook. 'Ben Robins is 'a responsive lawyer who is very constructive in finding a way around difficult issues' 'Chambers UK' Ben Robins is one of the 'big hitters in the Jersey market', 'Legal 500'.

Career

Ben qualified as a Jersey solicitor in December 2000, became a partner of Mourant Ozannes in October 2002 and has headed the firm's global funds practice area from 2008, joined Mourant Ozannes in 1997.

Member

Jersey Law Society; active participant in a number of finance industry working groups focussing on technical and market development projects.

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Review of Financial Advice (RFA) – "Jersey RDR"

An overview of the Review of Financial Advice and what businesses should do to prepare themselves before January 2014.

- Mourant Ozannes

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Jersey Royal Court considers measure of damages for dilapidations claims

In the absence of any statutory provision in Jersey addressing how dilapidations claims are to be quantified, the Royal Court's decision in JSSL v Barclays has provided some much needed guidance, particularly in circumstances where there is an acceptance that works to redress dilapidations have not been and will not be carried out.

- Ogier
English Supreme Court rules on Mistake and Hastings Bass

On 9 May 2013 the English Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment on the seminal cases of Pitt-v- Holt and Futter -v- Futter , with Lord Walker's valedictory judgment conclusively resolving the English position on the rule in Hastings Bass and rescission on the ground of mistake.

- Ogier
Protectors - role and duties

In the Matter of the Representation of C, D, E and F and In the Matter of the A and B Trusts [2012] JRC 169A, in a judgment released at the end of April, the Royal Court of Jersey has provided welcome guidance as to the scope of the duties of a trust protector and the circumstances under which they may be removed by the court.

- Bedell Cristin
Review of Financial Advice (RFA) – "Jersey RDR"

An overview of the Review of Financial Advice and what businesses should do to prepare themselves before January 2014.

- Mourant Ozannes
In the Matter of the Representation of A Limited and in the Matter of the F Foundation [2013] JRC 07

In the first case of its kind, the Royal Court gave directions to the qualified member of a foundation's council and had to give full consideration to the law applicable to a Jersey foundation, the Foundations (Jersey) Law 2009. In giving directions, the Court's view appears to have been that a foundation is closer in nature to a company than it is to a trust, albeit that, unlike the position with a company, the council members of a foundation can take advantage of the wide-ranging jurisdiction of the Court to give directions and to bless momentous decisions.

- Mourant Ozannes
Royal Court Clarifies the Law Relating to the Removal of Protectors

The Royal Court of the Island of Jersey has recently provided some welcome clarification as to the principles that will govern the exercise of its jurisdiction to remove a protector from office. Whilst the Court has exercised this jurisdiction on previous occasions, In the Matter of the A Trust is the first case in which it has been confirmed that the principles to be applied are the same as are currently applied to the removal of trustees from office. Read more...

- Mourant Ozannes
Yung Kee – an offshore perspective: the winding up of BVI and Cayman Islands companies in Hong Kon

This briefing discusses the recent Hong Kong Court of First Instance cases of Li Jianguo v Wei Wei and Pacific Overseas Investment, Yung Kee Holdings and in Pioneer Iron and Steel. It examines some of the potential difficulties facing litigants pursuing winding up petitions or actions for relief from unfair prejudice against BVI and Cayman companies in their home jurisdictions and the potential benefits in taking steps in the BVI and Cayman courts. Read more...

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Whirlwind of activity: Jersey employment law consultations and tribunal review

Since the autumn of 2012 there has been a whirlwind of activity in the Jersey employment law sphere

- Bedell Cristin
Tracing - Still on a new path

At the end of last year Jersey's Royal Court delivered a landmark judgment concerning the circumstances in which proprietary claims may be established and when assets may be traced.

- Ogier
Funds Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Update

Period covered: 31 December 2012 to 31 March 2013

- Ogier