Career
Ben is a business lawyer with over 25 years’ experience representing clients on M&A, private equity, angel and venture capital transactions, and a host of other complex business law matters, including shareholder disputes. Ben is also an active investor, and is currently on the Board of several tech-based companies, is the Chair of Nanozen (industrial (including mining and pharma) real-time, wearable air particle monitoring) and has, for over 10 years, been the Chair of Tiger 21 Vancouver (North America’s preeminent peer learning group for successful, active entrepreneurs who are stewarding personal wealth of $20MM and greater).
Clients include business owners and entrepreneurs, investors (including angel investors), private and public companies, limited partnerships and trusts, venture capital and private equity funds, investment banks, governments and subordinate public agencies. Ben has practiced in the areas of information and life sciences technology, food production, power generation, transportation (including work with rail carriers, commercial ferries, airlines, shipping and bus fleets), mining, book publishing, heavy construction, manufacturing (OEM), professional services, large scale agriculture, forestry, wholesale and distribution.
As Ben is proud of saying, over the years he has worked on some of British Columbia’s largest – and some of its smallest – transactions.