Lawyers in United States

Ben Orlanski

Ben Orlanski is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Capital Markets Group. Ben focuses on major corporate transactions and strategically solving critical business challenges. He has significant experience in securities and public company representation; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets transactions; special committee, board of directors and general corporate representation; and corporate governance. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including software-as-a-service, REITs, digital media, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Capital Formation and Securities Ben has significant experience in managing, structuring and executing sophisticated securities and capital raising transactions. His approach reflects understanding of market operation, well-designed capital structure and the practical realities of the capital raising process. He represents public companies and investors in public offerings, registered direct transactions, self-tenders, warrant exchanges/flush transactions, recapitalizations, defensive strategies and secondary offerings. He also advises clients on corporate finance transactions for private businesses, ranging from venture capital and private placements to public offerings and debt restructurings. Mergers and Acquisitions Ben has completed scores of transactions representing buyers, sellers, investment bankers and financiers through all phases of the M&A process. He is actively involved in planning, structuring, negotiating and documenting strategic merger and acquisition transactions as well as dispositions of sophisticated enterprises. General Counsel, Public Reporting and Strategic Advice Ben acts as outside general counsel for numerous public and private companies, applying a business-like approach to produce practical legal solutions to both day-to-day and exceptional legal challenges. In representing his public clients, Ben has successfully guided the public reporting process for clients facing accounting and SEC challenges, proxy contests, cash flow issues, litigation, shareholder activism and strategic alternatives. He frequently advises on issues related to compliance with insider trading laws and major compliance challenges. He also represents boards of directors and special committees of public companies in special situations, including “interested” transactions, investigations, executive succession planning and sensitive corporate governance issues.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Ben Snyder

Partner

Mayer Brown

Ben Stone

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Ben Subin

Partner

Holland & Knight

Ben Thorpe

Ben Thorpe represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex trial and appellate litigation and advises corporate clients on litigation and enforcement risk. He brings experience as a trusted advisor to executives and boards, delivering efficient, targeted legal solutions. His litigation practice includes class actions and multidistrict litigation, contract disputes, business torts, and statutory claims, with a particular focus on antitrust matters. Ben has represented parties and witnesses in high-profile antitrust cases across a range of industries. Ben previously served as in-house counsel at The Home Depot, managing a litigation portfolio centered on corporate recoveries and handling compliance and investigation matters across the enterprise. In addition to his commercial and appellate practice, Ben regularly represents clients in voting rights and other public interest matters.

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP

Ben Turner

Ben Turner is Of Counsel in Baker McKenzie's Los Angeles office and is a member of the Firm's North American Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group. Ben is a trial and appellate litigator handling an array of complex disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants, including class actions, regulatory investigations, insurance, and securities litigation. He also frequently works with trial teams to write dispositive motions, develop trial strategies, and handle post-trial proceedings.

Baker McKenzie

Benet O’Reilly

Benet J. O’Reilly is a leading M&A lawyer who advises clients on complex, high-stakes transactions, with a focus on public and private M&A, cross-border deals, carve-outs, divestitures and restructuring-related matters. With more than two decades of experience, he is known for bringing strategic judgment, practical advice and steady execution to transactions involving significant business, regulatory and timing pressures. Benet’s practice is particularly focused on technology, life sciences, healthcare and other innovation-driven sectors, where clients rely on him to navigate transformative transactions and complex deal dynamics. His recent matters include representing Shionogi in its $2.5 billion acquisition of global rights to RADICAVA ORS and IV RADICAVA and its acquisition of Qpex Biopharma; GSK in its acquisitions of Aiolos Bio and Boston Pharmaceuticals’ lead asset efimosfermin; Synopsys in its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys; Atlassian in its $975 million acquisition of Loom; American Tower in its $10.1 billion acquisition of CoreSite and $3.5 billion acquisition of InSite; and IFF in its $45.4 billion Reverse Morris Trust merger with DuPont’s Nutrition & Biosciences business. As a founding partner of Cleary’s San Francisco office, Benet helps lead the firm’s West Coast M&A work for technology, life sciences and other innovation-driven companies. Other clients have included Alphabet/Google, Asahi Kasei, FullBeauty Brands, Goodyear, Hewlett-Packard, Juul Labs, Levi Strauss & Co., Post Holdings, Schibsted and Surescripts.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Benjamin A. Potter

Ben Potter advises private and public companies, venture capital, and private equity firms, as well as investment banks involved in the technology, life sciences, and other growth industries. He serves as Global Chair of the Emerging Companies & Growth Practice and is the former Global Chair of the Technology Industry Group. Ben provides clients timely hands-on support and leverages access to the full resources of the firm’s global platform. He draws on considerable legal insight and complementary prior experience at IBM Global Services and two education startup companies in New York City. Ben provides clients with company representation on a full range of matters and transactions, including: Public and private financing transactions Mergers and acquisitions Formation issues Employment matters Equity incentives Securities law compliance License agreements Corporate governance matters

Latham & Watkins

Benjamin Allen

Partner

Holland & Knight

Benjamin Armour

Ben is the leader of the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Sullivan. He represents clients in a range of complex corporate matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital raising transactions. Ben provides sophisticated transactional counsel to diverse clients pursuing growth strategies, liquidity events, and the investment of capital. He represents public and private companies and investment funds across a broad array of industries, including technology and artificial intelligence, fintech, life sciences, medical technology, gaming, and sports and entertainment. Ben advises clients through all stages of the corporate life cycle – including initial formation, early-stage financing, growth, and exit. Ben’s practice includes an emphasis on cross-border work and assisting clients maximize business opportunities in the U.S. market. His practice also encompasses a range of corporate governance and emerging companies matters. Ben is a leader of the firm’s Opportunity Zones practice group and advises a range of clients in forming private investment funds, partnerships, joint ventures and other investment structures to take advantage of the U.S. Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017's Opportunity Zone Program. He also plays an active role in the firm’s Fintech and Blockchain practice group and counsels companies with respect to blockchain and related technologies, virtual currencies and digital token sales, and related securities laws and regulatory matters.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Benjamin Berman

Ben Berman, Co-Chair of the Global Fund Finance Group, represents borrowers in secured lending and other financing transactions, including fund finance and acquisition financing. Ben guides borrower-side clients through the full spectrum of: Private equity and private debt subscription lines of credit Acquisition and carve-out financings Corporate financings, including in aviation and technology ESG-linked credit facilities Fund-level NAV financings, cash-flow, receivables financings, and asset-based loans Ben leads Latham’s fund finance practice and he regularly helps clients navigate complex financings at the forefront of the market, leveraging his extensive private capital experience and deep relationships across the industry. Ben draws on close ties across the Latham platform — particularly with the corporate, investment funds, and tax teams — to strategize solutions that allow clients to achieve their commercial objectives. A recognized thought leader on fund finance and an innovator in the fund finance practice, Ben has spoken at industry events and panels and has been quoted in industry publications and authored a chapter on subscription facilities for GLI – Fund Finance. He is also a member of the Fund Finance Association’s US Advisory Committee. Ben maintains an active pro bono practice, recently working on matters through the Legal Counsel for the Elderly and for election protection.

Latham & Watkins

Benjamin Berringer

Ben Berringer represents clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation. He has specific experience in private fund litigation, as well as complex trading and market issues. Ben has represented individuals and corporations in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and numerous non-US regulators. Ben also has extensive experience representing and advising corporations on litigation and regulatory matters arising under US privacy and data protection laws.

Clifford Chance

Benjamin Clinger

Benjamin represents private equity firms in connection with acquisitions and divestitures across a wide range of sectors. Now based out of the Firm’s Bay Area office, Benjamin was a founding partner of the Firm’s Houston office which opened in 2014. Benjamin has handled matters on behalf of Olympus Partners, Pritzker Group Private Capital, Peak Rock Capital, Gryphon Investors, Parthenon Capital Partners, Solamere Capital, Blackstone, Bain Capital, Madison Dearborn Partners, GTCR and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG).

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Benjamin Cohen

Benjamin Cohen represents public and private US corporations, non-US corporations, investment banks, and private equity funds in capital markets, general securities, and corporate matters. A nationally recognized corporate lawyer, Benjamin regularly handles a broad array of high-profile and innovative capital markets and other financial transactions, including: Initial public offerings Direct listings SPAC transactions High yield debt offerings Leveraged buy-outs Public and private equity offerings Debt exchange offers and tender offers and consent solicitations Benjamin represents issuers and investment banking firms in capital markets and other financing transactions and companies with respect to general corporate and securities matters in a broad array of industries, including: Technology Retail Healthcare Natural resources Homebuilding Energy Gaming

Latham & Watkins

Benjamin Conery

Counsel

WilmerHale

Benjamin D. Reichard

Benjamin Reichard, a partner in our Litigation Section, enjoys a diverse practice, including securities arbitration, construction disputes, environmental law, and general commercial litigation. He also heads the firm’s international arbitration practice.

Fishman Haygood LLP

Benjamin E Rosenberg

Dechert

Benjamin E. Fox

Ben Fox represents clients in litigation and investigations involving allegations of fraud and white collar crime. His civil practice concentrates on actions brought under the False Claims Act, RICO Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and other fraud-based private causes of action. Ben also specializes in conducting internal investigations and representing organizations during government investigations involving health care fraud, securities fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and tax fraud. While a majority of his practice involves defending corporations and executives accused of fraud, Ben also represents a small number of whistleblowers in federal and state False Claims Act cases. He is also a frequent writer and speaker for various professional-interest organizations and publications, such as the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), ABA books and periodicals, Civil RICO Report, and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP

Benjamin Ferrucci

Benjamin is a seasoned employment attorney who advises clients on a broad spectrum of executive compensation and employee benefits issues and ERISA-related corporate matters. He represents public and private companies in financial services, real estate, health care, life sciences, technology, and a variety of other industries as well as boards, management teams, and funds. Read full biography.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Benjamin Fischer

Benjamin S. Fischer represents corporate executives and corporations in high stakes business litigation, criminal actions, and regulatory investigations. He has significant experience litigating almost every aspect of civil and criminal cases in both federal and state court and also has extensive experience handling all phases of arbitrations. Ben has tried criminal and civil cases to verdict and arbitrations to final decisions. He has led corporate internal investigations for multinational corporations. Ben also has significant appellate experience in both state and federal appellate courts. His cases have involved allegations of hedge fund mismanagement, private equity fund mismanagement, securities fraud, insider trading, stock option backdating, market timing, collusion, rate fixing, price fixing, bribery, tax fraud, and money laundering. In addition, Ben has represented both individuals and corporations under investigation by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the District Attorney’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, and FINRA. He also has represented companies conducting internal investigations and individuals in connection with those investigations.

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C.

Benjamin Fisher

Ben focuses on cross-border asset finance transactions in the aviation sector. He advises financial institutions and corporate clients on a broad range of matters, including structured debt transactions, capital markets transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset portfolio transfers, leasing, export credit agency-supported financings, secondary debt trading, and complex restructurings and workouts. Ben previously worked in our London and Hong Kong offices before relocating to New York, and he is qualified to practice in both New York and England and Wales.

Clifford Chance

Benjamin Ford

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Benjamin Fox

Benjamin Fox | Morrison Foerster Ben’s extensive trial practice focuses on high-stakes intellectual property disputes and constitutional issues, among other areas. A former co–chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Department, he also counsels clients on risk assessment and strategies for complex legal problems that cross jurisdictions and practice areas. His industry experience includes representing clients in the electronic entertainment, software and animation, jewelry and consumer goods, and sports and gaming industries, as well as litigation involving medical devices and healthcare technology, financial services, transportation, and commercial real estate projects. He is regularly involved in “bet the company” cases for plaintiffs and defendants in trade secrets, copyright, trademark, and patent litigation, and other commercial disputes.

Morrison Foerster

Benjamin Galea

DLA Piper LLP (US)