Jeffrey P. Benson, KC

Jeffrey Benson, KC, is a Partner at Cox & Palmer’s St. John’s office. He deals primarily with corporate and commercial matters and routinely advises on banking and secured financing, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, health law, administrative law, and litigation.

Jeffrey is acknowledged as a leading corporate/commercial law practitioner by the Canadian Lexpert Legal Directory, a LawDay© leading lawyer in banking and finance, and a top-tier corporate/commercial lawyer in Atlantic Canada by Chambers and Partners. He is consistently listed in The Best Lawyers^™ in Canada, earning recognition as its regional corporate lawyer of the year in 2010, 2017, 2019, and 2021. Additionally, he has been named one of the Top 10 most influential corporate lawyers in Atlantic Canada by Business Today©.

He is a lead provincial counsel for a statutory federal banking agency, a major national trust, and an insurance corporation. He also acts as Newfoundland counsel to a wide range of national and international corporations involved in various fields of endeavour, including health care, manufacturing, transportation, communications, and petrochemical industries.

Jeffrey is a former President of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and has served on many Law Society and Federal/Provincial Government working committees. He is past chair of the Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.