Ben Tooms

Senior Associate

London

Ben is a corporate lawyer, specialising in investment funds and asset management.

Ben specialises in matters relating to the asset management industry and advises on all aspects of the structuring, establishment and operation of investment funds across a wide range of asset classes and jurisdictions. Ben also advises on mergers and acquisitions involving investment fund clients.

Ben has spent time on secondment to Man Group (2013 and 2015) and to the Corporate Finance team at Stockdale Securities (2017).

Background

Ben studied politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Manchester and the GDL at BPP Law School.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

The Prospect Japan Fund Limited, a Guernsey-domiciled investment fund, on its recommended share for share exchange offer by Prospect Co Ltd., a listed Japanese company
Real Estate Credit Investments Limited, a Guernsey-domiciled investment fund investing in real estate backed securities, on its secondary issue and placing programme
Man Group on its complex outsourcings of global shareholder, transfer agency, valuation and custody services and middle office fund services to strategic service providers and the subsequent implementation projects
Moorfield Group on the sale of a diversified real estate investment portfolio by two of its funds to Lone Star Real Estate Fund III for £990 million