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Ben Simpson

Work Department

Corporate deaprtment

Position

Ben works as special counsel in the corporate team.

He advises on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets (AIM and main market) and on company law and partnership/LLP law. Ben works in a range of sectors including technology, financial services, real estate, sport, luxury retail, art and support services.

Ben acts for a number of acquisitive and fast growing tech companies. He has acted on numerous private equity and M&A transactions, including the acquisition of Autonomous Research by Alliance Bernstein, the investment by Inflexion in Chambers and Partners and the investment by Synova Capital in specialist insurer AllClear and Ben has acted on a number of significant hotel and corporate real estate transactions. Ben works closely with our regulatory team on financial services acquisitions in light of the associated controller applications and specialist due diligence required. Ben advises a number of clients on their controlling interests in quoted companies and the associated regulatory implications. He also advises on art transactions.

Ben has been profiled in Hedge Fund Review, Financial News, Bloomberg and Legal Week and has published articles on the PSC regime in the New Law Journal and Trusts and Estates. Ben has participated in consultations with the Takeover Panel on the close relatives and related trust concert party presumption, with the AIM team on disclosure obligations of beneficial owners of shares and with the ICSA regarding the PSC regime.

Career

Partner Withers LLP 2003 to date.

Languages

English

Education

Marlborough College (1988); Durham University (1992 BA Law and Economics 2(1)).