Michael Benjamin
Partner
New York
michael.benjamin@lw.com
+1.212.906.1311
PRACTICES
- Capital Markets
INDUSTRIES
- Retail & Consumer Products
EDUCATION
- BCom, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1998
high merit - LLB, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1997
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Michael Benjamin, Chair of the Retail & Consumer Products Industry Group, represents issuers and investment banks in a broad range of public and private transactions.
Michael has built a leading capital markets practice spanning initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, high yield and investment grade debt offerings, leveraged buyouts, cross-border securities offerings, and liability management transactions. Michael also advises US and international corporations on corporate governance and general corporate matters. He has worked on transactions in a range of industries, including consumer retail products, healthcare, media and telecommunications, technology, mining and metals, and general industrials.
EXPERIENCE
Michael's experience includes advising:
- StubHub on various corporate matters
- Goldman Sachs and Bank of America as lead underwriters on the IPO of Amer Sports
- Morgan Stanley as lead underwriter on the sale of shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev by the Altria Group
- Voyager Space Holdings on various corporate and financing matters
- Brillio on its recent investment from Orogen and various corporate financing matters
- QuEST on its recent investment from Carlyle (pending)
- HyBar, an affiliate of TPG, on various start-up and financing matters
- Foster Farms in various financing and strategic matters
- The underwriters on the IPO of Sweetgreen
- The underwriters on the IPO of HireRight
- AfterPay Ltd on several corporate and financing matters
- EG Group (EuroGarages) on several financing, corporate, and M&A matters
- Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners on multiple investments and financings
- Sycamore Partners on various investments in Express and Belk
- Bandwidth.com on its IPO, multiple equity offerings, and M&A transactions
- Carbon38 on multiple equity capital raises and other corporate matters
- Leggett & Platt on multiple corporate and capital markets matters
- MadHive on multiple corporate and capital markets matters
- Bank of America in connection with the IPO of Torrid, a Sycamore Partners portfolio company
- The underwriters on the IPO and follow-on offerings for AmWell Corporation
- The underwriters and lenders for multiple debt financings for GMR, a portfolio company of KKR
- The underwriters on the IPO of DigitalOcean
- Sizzling Platter in its offering of senior secured notes
- Goldman Sachs as lead underwriter on the IPO and follow-on offering of PetCo
- Bank of America as lead underwriter on a follow-on offering of shares of common stock for Freshpet
- Goldman Sachs in connection with multiple offerings of common shares of Option Care Health
- The underwriters on several secured notes offerings for Park Hotels & Resorts
- SunTrust as lead initial purchaser on a senior notes offering for Molina Healthcare
- Goldman Sachs on multiple financings for Big River Steel, a TPG company
- Bank of America as lead initial purchaser on a convertible notes offering for Dick’s Sporting Goods
- Bank of America as lead initial purchaser on a convertible notes offering for American Eagle Outfitters
- Livefeather on several corporate transactions
- Morgan Stanley as lead underwriter of the IPO and a follow-on offering for SI-Bone
- Morgan Stanley as lead initial purchaser on a senior secured notes offering for Nordstrom
- Bank of America in connection with the IPO of YETI and in its 2019 follow-on offering
- Bank of America and Citigroup Global Markets in connection with the issuance of senior notes by USI to fund its acquisition by KKR
- Dubai Aerospace Enterprise in connection with an offering of senior notes to fund its acquisition of AWAS
- Morgan Stanley in connection with an offering of senior notes by Consolidated Energy Limited