Ben focuses his practice on corporate and private equity-backed corporate transactions.
He represents strategics, private equity funds, family offices and institutional co-investors, independent sponsors, public and privately held companies and executives in a wide variety of transactional matters, including platform and add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, control, minority, growth and structured equity investments, divestitures, joint ventures, recapitalizations, commercial transactions, executive employment agreements and corporate governance matters.
Experience
- Representation of a New Jersey-based physician group in its add-on acquisition of a New York-based physician practice.
- Representation of a New York-based private equity firm that invests in the North American lower middle market in its investment two (2) internal medicine practices based in Dallas, TX.
- Representation of a protective eyewear manufacturer for the military (and subsidiary of an independent sponsor-backed PE platform) in its add-on acquisition of another eyewear creator.
- Representation of a public company subsidiary in its acquisition of a leading industrial services contractor specializing in refractory installation and repairs.
- Representation of a high-growth medical imaging business in its add-on acquisition of several New York-based all-digital radiology networks and a California-based all-digital radiology network.
- Representation of a Salt Lake City-based private equity firm in its acquisition of a leading provider of sleep and fatigue management.
- Representation of an independent sponsor in its acquisition of a Pennsylvania-based fabricator of proprietary custom foam products for various end markets.
- Representation of a tradeshow exhibiting company (and portfolio company of a private equity firm) in its add-on acquisition of a top-tier authorized dealer serving the greater Seattle metropolitan area and Alaska.
- Representation of an independent sponsor in its acquisition of a family-owned leading regional food and non-food distributor in Indiana.
- Representation a private equity firm in its acquisition of a leading producer of flexible containers, covers and doors, and refueling systems for military and commercial applications.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of an Alabama-based full-service door manufacturing company.
- Representation of an equity group through the fund-raising and subscription process with co-investors in connection with the creation of an investment platform.
- Representation of strategic group in the acquisition of a Pennsylvania based screw and rivet manufacturing company.
- Representation of nascent US hotel brand on asset acquisitions of target properties in Florida, Texas and South Carolina with continued counseling post-acquisition with an emphasis on branding agreements, executive hiring agreements, capital improvement arrangements and day-to-day operations of hotels.
- Representation of publicly-traded energy corporation in the asset acquisition of North Carolina target specializing in renewable natural gas recovery from the anaerobic digestion of swine manure and the stock acquisition of an Indiana-based landfill gas production target.
- Representation of a Midwest freight rail line sourcing funds from UK-based infrastructure equity firm.
- Staffed company-wide refinancing and collateralization of freight rail line financing spanning secured assets in Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and several Canadian provinces.
- Assisted technology-based investment firm with refinancing of internal loans secured by intellectual property and complex satellite technology products held in both the US and Canada
- Staffed Asset Sale of closely-held Pittsburgh-based office services and products company.
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University of Pittsburgh School of LawJD
cum laude, Order of the Coif, Articles Editor, Pittsburgh Tax Review
2019 -
Allegheny CollegeBAPolitical Science
cum laude
2014
Allegheny County Bar Association
Member, Allegheny Country Club, Butler, PA, 2021
- Pennsylvania
Recipient, CALI Award, Lawyering: A History, Prof. Hibbits, 2019
Recipient, CALI Award, Pennsylvania Practice, Hon. Christine Ward, 2018
Recipient, CALI Award, Criminal Law, Prof. Burkoff, 2016