Ben Suen

Ben has worked in both Melbourne and London on cross-border M&A deals across a number of sectors including healthcare, tech and infrastructure. He regularly advises private equity houses and other financial sponsor clients on all types of leveraged M&A, co-investments, disposals, restructurings and portfolio company issues. Ben has been recognised as a Rising Star by The Legal 500 for high-value private equity transactions.

Ben has also undertaken a secondment to Centerbridge Partners as interim European General Counsel. Prior to joining Linklaters, Ben was an associate at a top tier Anglo-Australian law firm.

Work highlights

Ben’s work highlights include advising:

• Apax Partners on:
  • its disposal of Unilabs to AP Moller - the largest European Healthcare PE exit in 2021
  • the acquisition (in 2016) and then sale (in 2020) of Neuraxpharm, a leading European pharmaceutical company, to funds advised by Permira
• Brookfield on its preferred equity investment in GEMS Education in 2024  
• Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board on its disposal of its 50% stake in Arqiva to Digital 9 Infrastructure in 2022
• Carlyle on its acquisition of Anthesis, a leading global pure-play sustainability advisory and solutions firm in 2023
• GIC on:
  • its investment in Cineworld in 2017 and 2020
  • its consortium bid with Advent for the takeover of Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB in 2021
• HgCapital on:
  • its acquisition alongside TA Associates of The Access Group in 2018
  • its acquisitions of Combell Group and TransIP to form team.blue (in 2019) and subsequent recapitalisation transaction (in 2022)
  • its investment in Visma in 2023
• iCON Infrastructure on its acquisition of Alliance Medical Group from Life Healthcare Group in 2023
• M&G on its sale of Alliance Medical to Life Healthcare in 2016
• Macquarie GIG on the sale of its stake in Covanta WtE facilities to EQT in 2022
• ManCapital on:
  • its investment in Right to Dream in 2020
  • the governance reset of Right to Dream in 2023 to facilitate its investment in the newly created San Diego Major League Soccer franchise
• Montagu Private Equity on its acquisition of Lloyd's List Intelligence from Informa plc in 2022
• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure on its investment in FastFiber Portugal alongside Altice International in 2020
• Oakley Capital on its disposal of Facile.it and reinvestment alongside EQT (in 2018) and further reinvestment alongside Silver Lake (in 2022)

Ben holds Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce (major in Economics) degrees from Monash University, Australia. Ben also holds a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (Australia).

Ben is admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court of Australia and England and Wales.