Ben focuses his practice on corporate and private equity-backed corporate transactions.
He regularly represents private equity funds, mezzanine finance 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.
His experience extends across multiple industries, including healthcare, technology, energy and infrastructure, financial, food and beverage, laboratory testing, distribution and manufacturing, consumer products and records and data management.
Ben received his law degree from Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he graduated summa cum laude. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Experience
- Representation of a private equity-backed value-added marketer of industrial chemicals, performance fluids and specialty lubricants, in its add-on acquisition of one of North America’s premier chemical distributors.
- Representation of a private equity-backed provider of mechanical contracting services for industrial, commercial and biomedical users in its acquisition of a full-service engineering, construction and service company.
- Representation of a private equity-backed provider of mechanical contracting services for industrial, commercial and biomedical users in its acquisition of a provider of electrical systems and solutions.
- Representation of a vertically integrated collection of healthcare companies that offers the best in diagnostic imaging, equipment services, clinical staffing and radiopharmaceutical products in its acquisition of a molecular imaging services and solutions company.
- Representation of a vertically integrated collection of healthcare companies that offers the best in diagnostic imaging, equipment services, clinical staffing and radiopharmaceutical products and in its portfolio company, a medical imaging equipment services provider, in the add-on acquisition of a nuclear medicine equipment and system supplier.
- Representation of a vertically integrated collection of healthcare companies that offers the best in diagnostic imaging, equipment services, clinical staffing and radiopharmaceutical products in its acquisition of a medical imaging equipment services provider.
- Representation of a diagnostic imaging solutions company in its acquisition of a medical imaging equipment services provider.
- Representation of a private equity-backed provider of mechanical contracting services for industrial, commercial and biomedical users in its acquisition of a full-service commercial heating, ventilating and air conditioning contractor.
- Representation of a private equity-backed provider of mechanical contracting services for industrial, commercial and biomedical users in its acquisition of a mechanical contracting company.
- Representation of 3 Rivers Capital, a Pennsylvania-based private equity firm, in its acquisition of Amazing Care Home Health Services, Inc., a Colorado-based home health services company.
- Representation of a Cleveland-based private equity firm in connection with an equity investment from a Columbus-based private equity firm to fund two acquisitions.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of an aligned network of healthcare providers and multi-specialty clinics.
- Representation of Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, in its investment in DataLink Service Fund Solutions, a leading provider of medical software solutions.
- Representation of Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, in its strategic partnership with Cincinnati Eye Institute, one of the largest and most reputable ophthalmology practices in the country, to form CEI Vision Partners, a management services organization.
- Representation of Tiger Peak Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, in its acquisition of VoiceComm, a wholesale wireless accessory distributor.
- Representation of a family investment firm in its acquisition of a home healthcare services company.
- Representation of Acacia Partners, a Texas-based private equity firm, in its acquisition of a minority interest in a technology transformation company.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of a company that delivers professional in-home nursing care to qualified beneficiaries.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of the equity of dermatology practices.
- Representation of an operating company in its sale of the equity of a dental supply company.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its equity acquisition of two dermatology practice management companies.
- Representation of an investment management group, in its $1 million acquisition, through a portfolio company, of the assets of a communications company.
- Representation of an investment management group, in its acquisition, through a portfolio company, of the assets of a provider of next-generation windows and Linux VPS web hosting services.
- Representation of an investment management group in its acquisition, through a portfolio company, of a provider of web hosting services.
- Representation of an investment management group in its acquisition, through a portfolio company, of the assets of a web hosting company.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its $35 million investment in a premier provider of dermatology services.
- Representation of a provider of medical alert and medication dispensing systems in its sale to the largest independent provider of Personal Emergency Response Systems in North America.
- Representation of one of the world’s largest independent alternative asset management firms in its $55 million debt and equity investment in two healthcare providers.
- Representation of a private equity firm in connection with its purchase of all of the equity interests of a provider of academic and special education programs for public, private and charter schools in the U.S.
- Representation of private owners of personal emergency response systems business in connection with the sale of all outstanding stock of the business.
- Representation of private equity purchaser of plastic products company.
- Representation of sole owner of privately held high end lighting company in divestiture of company equity interests.
- Representation of publicly traded coal company in divestiture of coal assets and equity interest in a joint venture.
- Representation of publicly traded records and data management company in multiple acquisitions of records and data management business assets.
- Representation of publicly traded company in multiple acquisitions of tower infrastructure assets.
- Representation of publicly traded company in multiple acquisitions of strategic fiber assets.
- Representation of private manufacturer and distributor of food products in acquisition of new line of food products.
- Representation of privately held healthcare products company in divestiture of all company assets.
- Representation of publicly traded company in minority investment in privately held paint company.
- Managed complex due diligence reviews for publicly traded company’s acquisition of several large portfolios of tower infrastructure assets.
- Managed complex due diligence reviews for publicly traded company’s acquisitions of strategic fiber and tower infrastructure assets.
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Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne UniversityJD
summa cum laude, Editor-in-Chief, Duquesne Business Law Journal, Staff Member, Duquesne Law Review
2013 -
University of PittsburghBAEconomics
magna cum laude
2006
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
Member, Allegheny County Bar Association
Member, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Partners Board
- Speaker, Emerging Manager Conference, Dallas, TX, April 16-17, 2024
- Moderator, "Navigating the Journey from Independent Sponsor to Emerging Manager," Emerging Manager Conference, Dallas, TX, May 17, 2023
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of New York Networking Event, New York, NY, March 29, 2022
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of New York Networking Lunch, December 9, 2021
- Moderator, "What I Wish I Knew Before My First Deal as an Independent Sponsor," 2021 Independent Sponsor Conference, October 20, 2021
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of New York Networking Lunch, September 28, 2021
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of Pittsburgh Virtual Roundtable Discussion, April 4, 2020
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of New York Networking Lunch, June 4, 2018
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of the Great Lakes Region Networking Lunch, April 23, 2018
- Speaker, Independent Sponsors of New York Networking Group, April 17, 2018
- Pennsylvania
Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2021-2025
Selected for inclusion in America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity, Pennsylvania, Chambers USA, 2023, 2024
Recipient, “2023 Professional Excellence Award: Lawyers on the Fast Track,” The Legal Intelligencer, 2023
Selected to “Pennsylvania Rising Stars,” Business/Corporate, SuperLawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2023
Recipient, “13th Annual Emerging Leaders Award,” The M&A Advisor, 2022