Tom Benjamin

Tom is a Senior Associate in the Private Capital & Corporate Finance group. Tom advises on a broad range of corporate matters, including M&A (private and public), IPOs and secondary fundraisings. Tom also has particular expertise in warranty and indemnity insurance and works across a number of sectors, including hospitality and leisure, life sciences and real estate.

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Career

Since 2021	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 - 2021	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2018	Associate, Mills & Reeve

2014 - 2016

Trainee Solicitor, Mills & Reeve

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Education

2016	Admitted as a lawyer, England and Wales
2014	LPC, Kaplan Law School
2013	LLB Law, Swiss Law, University of Nottingham

Expertise

Services and Groups Structured real estate

Experience

Invesco Real Estate on major international partnership with Westmont	We have advised Invesco Real Estate (Invesco), the global real estate investment manager, on its new strategic long-term partnership with Westmont, one of the largest private hotel property owners and operators with approximately 400 hotels in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia.
EQT on £1bn residential real estate joint venture.	Advised global investor EQT on a £1bn residential real estate joint venture, set to bring 3000 new rental homes to Greater London. The billion-sterling investment portfolio is being launched with residential property developer Sigma Capital. It is the first UK investment for EQT Real Estate, a division of global investor EQT Partners.
Secret Escapes on the acquisition of TravelBird and Pigsback.com	Secret Escapes on the acquisition of Dutch based TravelBird, the online luxury and experience company, and Pigsback.com, the market leading marketplace in Ireland for online hospitality offers.

Tritax Big Box REIT plc on the GBP370m acquisition of db Symmetry

Tritax Big Box REIT on its acquisition of db Symmetry, which owns one of the UK’s largest strategic land portfolios for the development of Big Box real estate assets and related logistics facilities. The acquisition attributed an enterprise value of GBP370 million to db Symmetry.

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