Benjamin focuses on the full range of bankruptcy litigation and complex restructuring matters, with deep experience across domestic and cross border insolvency, special situations, and distressed related disputes. His career spans senior roles in law practice, investment banking, institutional investing, and crisis management. His work frequently involves insolvency related investigations, creditor and debtor disputes, and commercial disputes arising from distressed situations.
Since joining the firm, Ben has played a leading role in high profile bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He serves as chief of staff to the court appointed examiner in the First Brands Group, LLC Chapter 11 case, where he has been centrally involved in the examiner’s retention, budgeting, work plan development, and coordination of complex investigative and litigation workstreams. He also advises clients in large and complex Chapter 11 cases, special situations, and Chapter 15 proceedings involving pending insolvency proceedings in Europe.
Ben regularly advises clients on cross border enforcement and defensive strategies involving judgments and arbitration awards, including matters arising in the context of international sanctions targeting Russia. His practice includes advising clients on the structuring and negotiation of settlements while employing his structured finance and corporate finance backgrounds.
In addition, Ben represents a litigation trust in a pending billion-dollar damage claim against the former insider lenders of a failed enterprise. He also is defending a client in an investigation and dispute involving a litigation trust created under Chapter 11 plan and related D&O coverage.
Earlier in his career, Ben served as lead counsel to multiple official committees in major public company restructurings, including the Chapter 11 cases of Continental Airlines, America West Airlines, and El Paso Electric Company. He later joined Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup) as a managing director, and subsequently managed workouts, restructurings, and litigation for a global hedge fund.
Ben’s background in structured finance also led to his management of institutional film funds, for which he received executive producer credits on more than 40 major motion pictures.
He has served as an expert financial and industry adviser to the U.S. Department of Justice in United States v. Wolf of Wall Street Motion Picture, et al., which arose from the multibillion-dollar misappropriation of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund assets known as the 1MDB scandal.
In the area of crisis management and corporate governance, Ben served as chief restructuring officer and turnaround CEO of NanoMech, Inc., leading the company through a going concern sale in its Delaware chapter 11 case, including the investigation and settlement of claims against former officers and directors.