Ben Paterson

Ranked in 1 Practice Areas

Band 3

Corporate/Commercial

New Zealand

5 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

Global 2024

About

Provided by Ben Paterson

Asia-Pacific

Practice Areas

Ben is a key dealmaker for Russell McVeagh, with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures and overseas investment. Ben has acted on a number of significant and complex financial transactions, providing high quality legal advice to large scale, high-profile private equity and corporate clients, including Pacific Equity Partners, CPE Capital, Carlyle, The Riverside Company, Fonterra and Lion. He is one of New Zealand's leading experts on the NZ foreign direct investment regime and has been heavily involved in significant changes to the regime as well as providing advice to off-shore clients. He recently advised Fonterra on its $552 million sale of its dairy farms in China and its $633 million sale of DFE Pharma to CVC, and Advent International on its acquisition (through its portfolio company Industria Chimica Emiliana) of New Zealand Pharmaceuticals.

Career

Ben joined Russell McVeagh in 2008 and progressed to partner in 2017.

Professional Memberships

Ben is a member of the New Zealand Private Capital Association and the Australian New Zealand Sports Law Association.

Publications

Ben is a regular contributor to Russell McVeagh's thought leadership on foreign investment and M&A, and has recently co-authored the New Zealand chapter of the Chambers and Partners 2021 Private Equity Guide.