Benjamin A. Bodurian

Benjamin Bodurian regularly advises private equity firms and public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, investments, dispositions, joint ventures and other 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 private equity firms such as BC Partners, Carlyle and EQT as well as large corporations such as AGCO, Change Healthcare, Garda World Security Corporation and TD Bank.

Benjamin’s representative experience while at Simpson Thacher includes:

• AGCO in the sale of its Grain & Protein business to American Industrial Partners
• Garda World Security Corporation in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Stealth Monitoring and OnSolve
• Change Healthcare in its $13.8 billion acquisition by UnitedHealth Group
• 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
• Carlyle’s credit platform in its fund adoption of Vertical Capital Income Fund, a publicly traded closed end fund registered under the ’40 Act
• 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
• 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)
• El Puerto de Liverpool, S.A.B. de C.V., a leading Mexican retailer, in its acquisition, together with certain members of the Nordstrom family, of all shares of Nordstrom, Inc. not already owned by the buying group in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.25 billion on an enterprise basis
• Pharmaceutical Product Development in Accelerated Enrollment Solutions’ acquisition of the clinical research site business of Bioclinica
• 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

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