Benjamin Fidler

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Fidler represents acquirors, buyout groups, sellers, targets, boards of directors and special committees in a range of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carveout divestitures, minority equity investments and other corporate and strategic transactions. Mr. Fidler’s clients include public and private companies, private equity firms, asset managers and funds, and span a broad range of industries.

Mr. Fidler’s recent representations include:

• Apollo Global Management and PK Airfinance in the acquisition of a $920 million portfolio of secured aviation loans from Standard Chartered Bank
• Veritas Capital in the take-private acquisition of Syneos Health, a biopharmaceutical solutions provider, by a consortium that also included Elliott Investment Management and Patient Square Capital, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $7.1 billion
• Anthology, a Veritas Capital portfolio company, in (i) the sale of Anthology’s Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom tool to Class Technologies, Inc. and (ii) the sale of Anthology’s Blackboard K-12 Community Engagement division to Finalsite Holdings, Inc.
• ORBCOMM Inc., a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, in connection with its acquisition by GI Partners in an all-cash transaction that valued ORBCOMM at approximately $1.1 billion
• Hartree Partners in the sale of its natural gas storage portfolio to Williams (WMB.N) for $1.95 billion
• Actis and its portfolio company, Valia Energía, in its acquisition of EVM Energía, two advanced natural gas-powered plants with a combined output of 950 MWs, located near Mexico City
• Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group in the formation of a joint venture with Hydro Rein to build and operate Feijão, a 586 MW combined wind and solar power project in the northeast of Brazil
• New Fortress Energy Inc. and Eletricidade do Brasil S.A. in its sale of LNG-to-power facilities to Eneva S.A. for approximately US $1.29 billion
• Queensland Investment Corporation in its investment in Generate Capital, a leading sustainable energy and infrastructure platform
• Advising the lenders in relation to the financing of the acquisition by Francisco Partners of CDK International
• Partners Group in connection with their investment in Fermaca, Mexico’s leading midstream natural gas infrastructure firm
• Cathcart Rail’s acquisition of the railcar repair business of The Andersons, Inc. and a related new investment in Cathcart Rail by Nuveen
• American Casino and Entertainment Properties in the sale of a portfolio including the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to Golden Entertainment*
• Major League Baseball in connection with the initial investment and subsequent acquisition of a controlling stake in BAMTech, MLB’s streaming technology business, by the Walt Disney Company*

*Matters handled prior to joining Milbank.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Fidler earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College. Following law school, Mr. Fidler served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ralph K. Winter of the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals.