Benjamin A. Bodurian

Benjamin Bodurian regularly advises public and private companies and private equity firms in connection with mergers and acquisitions, investments, dispositions, joint ventures, shareholder activism and other significant corporate transactions. He has experience representing clients across a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, financial services and industrials and manufacturing. Benjamin’s clients have included large corporations such as Republic Airways, Herc Rentals, Change Healthcare and Garda World Security Corporation as well as private equity firms such as BC Partners, Carlyle and EQT.

Benjamin’s representative experience while at Simpson Thacher includes:

• Republic Airways in its pending merger with Mesa Air Group
• Herc Rentals in its $5.3 billion acquisition of H&E Equipment Services, following H&E’s termination of its previously announced proposed sale to United Rentals
• Change Healthcare in its $13.8 billion sale to UnitedHealth Group, which was unsuccessfully challenged in Federal District Court by the Department of Justice on antitrust grounds
• Garda World Security Corporation in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Stealth Monitoring and OnSolve
• EQT in multiple transactions, including the sales of Direct ChassisLink and Blume Global
• BC Partners’ credit platform in multiple transactions regarding business development companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, including transactions involving KCAP Financial (subsequently renamed Portman Ridge Finance Corporation), OHA Investment Corp and Garrison Capital
• El Puerto de Liverpool in its $6.25 billion take-private, together with the Nordstrom Family, of Nordstrom, Inc.
• TD Bank in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen
• USAA in multiple transactions involving its asset management business units, including the $1.8 billion sale of its brokerage and wealth management divisions to Charles Schwab and the sale of a controlling interest in its real estate asset management business to a group of third-party investors including James Davidson, a founder of Silver Lake
• Supernova Partners, a SPAC, in its $3 billion business combination with Offerpad, a real estate i-buyer
• Finance of America in its $1.9 billion business combination with Replay Acquisition, a SPAC
• AGCO in the $700 million sale of its Grain & Protein business to American Industrial Partners
• Carlyle’s credit platform in its fund adoption of Vertical Capital Income Fund, a publicly traded closed end fund registered under the ’40 Act
• Meridian Capital, a commercial real estate financing firm, in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of a controlling stake in the agency lending business of Barings (subsequently renamed NewPoint Real Estate Capital)
• Pharmaceutical Product Development in Accelerated Enrollment Solutions’ acquisition of the clinical research site business of Bioclinica

Benjamin received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College.