W. Benjamin "Ben" Barkley

Ben Barkley advises public and private clients in a broad range of corporate finance transactions and securities regulatory matters, including:

• mergers and acquisitions
• public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities
• venture capital and private equity investments
• compliance with securities disclosure obligations
• corporate governance
• corporate restructurings, recapitalizations and distressed situations
• joint ventures and strategic alliances
• special committee, board and independent director counsel

Mr. Barkley has broad experience structuring and executing mergers and acquisitions and other control transactions, including extensive experience representing strategic buyers in consolidating industries, leading serial acquisition programs including from 10 to 120 acquisitions. He has handled public and private issuances of debt securities in transactions ranging in size from $20 million to $1.35 billion, including Rule 144A offerings, high yield 144A-for-life bond offerings, investment grade public debt offerings, institutional private placements, and Exxon Capital debt exchange offerings. He also has extensive experience with equity offerings ranging in size from $10 million to more than $1 billion, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, at-the-market continuous offerings, and PIPES transactions.

Mr. Barkley previously served as Deputy Managing Partner of the firm, and as Chairman of its Corporate Practice.