Benjamin advises clients on private investment fund structuring across a variety of asset classes, including traditional private equity, growth, venture, real estate, infrastructure, debt, RMBS, and consumer health. His work with sponsors and asset managers includes structuring “upper-tier” general partner, management company, and special limited partner arrangements. Benjamin has significant experience structuring both onshore and offshore pooled investment vehicles.

Benjamin’s investor-side work includes representing investment banks, institutional investors, family office platforms, and university endowments on their primary, secondary, and co-investments in private equity and venture capital assets.

Benjamin has decades of corporate transactional and governance experience. His background includes senior leadership positions at Hamilton Lane Advisors and Capmark Financial Group, and associate roles at other major firms earlier in his career.

• Advised Principal Financial Group (NASDAQ:PFG) on its collaboration with Reinsurance Group of America as lead investors in Zoë Foundry, the first venture studio fund structure focused exclusively on the employee benefits ecosystem.
• Advised on the formation, structuring, and funding of Circular Services, the largest privately owned recycling company in North America.
• Represented Closed Loop Partners, a pioneer capital provider dedicated to the circular economy, in the formation of Closed Loop Leadership Fund, a private equity fund focused on acquiring circular business models.
• Represented Spire Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investments in the technology-enabled business services, communications, media, and education sectors, in a controlled investment in Pen-Link Inc., a U.S. provider of mission-critical government investigative software solutions.
• Represented Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) on its largest commingled fund to date – Hamilton Lane Secondary Fund V, a global, diversified private equity secondary vehicle with more than $3.9 billion of commitments.
• Represented Hamilton Lane on Hamilton Lane Equity Opportunities Fund V, which closed on $2.1 billion of commitments from global investors including public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals.