Benjamin Morgan

Benjamin Morgan

Counsel
Benjamin Morgan
London
+44 (0)20 7667 3611
Benjamin Morgan is a counsel in the firm’s Technology and Life Sciences group and Capital Markets practice. His practice covers advising prospective issuers, financial institutions and private equity investors on equity capital market transactions (including IPOs, secondary offerings and selldowns) as well as assisting on general public company advisory matters (including in relation to an issuer’s continuing obligations following its listing). Benjamin also has extensive experience advising underwriters on numerous equity raises and spent time on secondment at Goldman Sachs’ IBD legal team in London.

Experience

Benjamin’s experience includes advising:

  • Advising an affiliate of ZQ Capital on its Mandatory Takeover Offer of Allergy Therapeutics and related financing
  • Stifel and WG Partners as joint bookrunners on AIM-quoted Scancell’s £12.7 million placing, subscription and open offer
  • JP Morgan, Jefferies, Kempen, and ABG SC as joint bookrunners on Nykode Therapeutics’s (an Oslo Bors listed company) US$45m private placement
  • Stifel as placement agent on Renalytix’s (a dual AIM and NASDAQ listed company) US$20m private investment in public equity
  • Pfizer on the demerger and standalone listing of Haleon*
  • PensionBee on its transfer from the London Stock Exchange’s high growth segment to the exchange’s premium segment and admission to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Official List*
  • Swiss Re on its £540 million selldown in Pheonix Group Holdings by way of an ABB*
  • Stelrad Radiators on its £95 million IPO and premium listing*
  • BofA Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas as underwriters on Baltic Classifieds Group’s £330 million IPO and premium listing*
  • PensionBee on its £60 million IPO (including its customer offer) on the London Stock Exchange’s high growth segment*
  • THG on its £1.9 billion IPO and standard listing*
  • easyJet on its £700 million cashbox placing*
  • RBC, Jefferies and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (a Stifel company) on Metro Bank’s £375 million documented placing*
  • Stifel and Jefferies as underwriters on DWF Group’s £96 million IPO and premium listing*
  • Nova Ljubljanska Banka on its €608 million IPO and standard listing of global depositary receipts*
  • RBC, Jefferies and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (a Stifel company) on Metro Bank's £303 million undocumented placing*
  • J.P. Morgan, RBC, and Macquarie as underwriters on Amigo Loans’ £327 million IPO and premium listing*
  • Baupost on its selldown in Bakkavor’s £244 million IPO and premium listing*
  • PureGym on its postponed IPO and premium listing*
  • Numis and Barclays as underwriters on The Gym Group’s £123 million IPO and premium listing*
  • BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Numis as underwriters on Auto Trader’s £1.4 billion IPO and premium listing*
  • Barclays, HSBC, and RBC as underwriters on John Laing’s £249 million IPO and premium listing*
  • B&M Retail on its £1 billion IPO and premium listing*
  • Barclays on its £5.9 billion rights issue*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Credentials

Education

LPC2008

College of Law London

GDL2007

College of Law (now known as University of Law)

BA(Hons) Modern Languages2006

Durham University

Admissions

Bars

  • England & Wales