Tom Benjamin

Tom is an 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 2018	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2018	Associate, Mills & Reeve
2014 - 2016	Trainee Solicitor, Mills & Reeve

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 Corporate real estate

Experience

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 on its acquisition of an 87% economic interest in 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, which attributes an enterprise value of GBP370 million to db Symmetry, is being funded with a mixture of equity and cash raised pursuant to a placing and open offer underwritten by Jefferies.We have advised Tritax on numerous real estate acquisitions, forward fundings, debt financings and capital markets fundraisings, including its IPO in 2013.Tritax is the only real estate investment trust dedicated to investing in very large logistics facilities in the UK.