Benjamin M. Roth is a partner in the corporate department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Mr. Roth’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions; capital markets transactions; and general corporate and securities matters, including proxy fights, hostile defense and corporate governance. Ben has advised a broad range of public and private companies and financial sponsors in the United States and abroad in a variety of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, financial services, retail, energy, and industrials.
Among other matters, he represented:
- Walgreens in its acquisitions of Duane Reade and Option Care
- Novartis in its acquisitions of Alcon, Chiron, Eon Labs and Hexal AG
- Trigon Healthcare in its acquisition by Anthem
- Google in its “stalking horse agreement” to acquire a portfolio of 6,000 patents and related assets from Nortel pursuant to Nortel’s bankruptcy process
- Bankrate in its acquisition by Apax Partners and subsequent IPO
- GMAC in its $38 billion private exchange and cash tender offers, its $16.3 billion equity issuances related to receipt of TARP funds, its transaction to become the primary provider of wholesale and retail financing for Chrysler and multiple senior notes offerings
- CIT Group in the sale of its home lending business to Lone Star Fund VI (U.S.), L.P., its exchange offer for certain of its outstanding notes and all of its outstanding equity units and its offering of common and convertible preferred stock
- Bank of America in the formation of its payment-processing joint venture with First Data Corporation
- Sandler O’Neill in its structuring and receipt of a minority investment by The Carlyle Group and Kelso
- Lazard in the formation of an Italian investment banking joint venture with Banca Intesa
- Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the sale of its U.S. credit card and financial product businesses to Citicorp
- Sears Canada in the sale of its credit card business to J.P. Morgan Chase
- WalMart in its acquisition of The Seiyu, Ltd.
- Dollar General in its acquisition by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co.
- The Sports Authority in its acquisition by Leonard Green & Partners
- ConocoPhillips in its acquisition of Burlington Resources
- Cinergy in its merger with Duke Energy
- Ameren Corporation in its purchase of Illinois Power Company from Dynegy
- Vinci Partners in its transaction to become the master franchisee for Burger King in Brazil
- Apollo Management in its restructuring of PrimaCom AG and its acquisitions of Realogy Corporation, AMC Entertainment and the Advanced Materials business from General Electric to form Momentive Performance Materials
- Momentive Performance Materials in its merger with Hexion Specialty Chemicals
- ElkCorp in its acquisition by Building Materials Corporation of America
- Crompton Corporation in the sale of its organosilicones business to General Electric Company.
Ben received a B.S. in Foreign Service magna cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1998 and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. with honors from Stanford Law School in 2001. He served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance.
Ben lives in New Jersey with his wife, son and two daughters. |
