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Ben Filmer is an experienced corporate solicitor advising individuals and businesses on a broad range of transactional and non-transactional matters.
Ben undertakes a wide variety of corporate work, including share and asset acquisitions and sales, corporate re-organisations, joint ventures and corporate governance.
He acts for a varied client base including large corporate entities, individual shareholders, and management teams. He has worked across a broad range of sectors including technology, manufacturing and retail.
Ben takes a pragmatic solutions-based approach; seeking to find the best commercial solutions for his clients and helping them to achieve their aims.
He has twice been ranked as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 Guide.
- Advising the shareholders of a market-leading scientific analysis business on the sale of their group for circa £80 million.
- Acting on a series of acquisitions for a trade buyer expanding its business and property portfolio across the UK.
- Advising management on the sale of a major sports marketing business to a private equity fund.
- Advising on a complex triple demerger separating out three branches of a high value family company portfolio.
- Acting on two corporate restructurings and sales, including extracting property from within companies before they were sold.
- Advising a previous selling shareholder on their investments into start-ups, including investment agreements, shareholders' agreements and broader corporate support.
- Acting for a family-owned business in acquiring another company and subsequently advising on a group restructuring to allow management to become shareholders within the group.
- Advising shareholders in relation to family investment companies and on various complex shareholders' agreements.
- Rising Star - Legal 500 Guide 2023 Edition
- Rising Star - Legal 500 Guide 2022 Edition
Ben is a keen marathon runner and distance cyclist (who keeps claiming one day he will ride from John O'Groats to Land's End!).