Overview

Benji advises private equity firms, portfolio companies and a variety of public and private businesses in connection with a range of strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, structured financings, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. His work focuses on identifying practical solutions to complex legal issues and spans a variety of industries, including infrastructure, renewables, energy and technology.

Benji is regularly recognized in legal publications, including, Legal 500 U.S., M&A/Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts, 2022; M&A/Corporate & Commercial: M&A – Large Deals ($1 Billion-Plus), 2023 and 2024. He has also been selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2019, 2022, and 2023.

Experience

  • Blackstone in the sale of a majority stake in Sabre Industries, Inc., a leading provider of highly engineered critical infrastructure solutions for power utilities, telecom, and data centers (pending)

  • Brookfield in the launch of Northview Energy, a renewable energy joint venture with Norges Bank Investment Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), seeded with a 2.3 GW portfolio of utility-scale solar and onshore wind assets

  • Brookfield in the formation of a renewable energy joint venture with Mitsubishi HC Capital to acquire and operate a diversified portfolio of contracted, operating wind and solar assets across Europe, seeded with approximately 570 MW of capacity (pending)

  • ARM Energy, an energy marketing and infrastructure development firm, in the sale of its Monument Pipeline to Kinder Morgan

  • Stonepeak in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the approximately $11.0 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, which at 2.6 GW is expected to be the largest offshore wind project in the U.S. and one of the largest offshore wind projects globally upon completion (Proximo North America Offshore Wind Deal of the Year, 2024) (Project Finance International Americas Deal of the Year, 2024)

  • ARM Energy Holdings, LLC, in a $3.2 billion joint venture with PIMCO for the construction of a 240-mile-long natural gas pipeline with a transportation capacity of at least 2.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to service expansion trains to be constructed at Port Arthur LNG

  • Targa Resources Corp. in connection with its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Lucid Energy, a company that natural gas gathering, treating and processing services in the Delaware Basin, from Riverstone Holdings and Goldman Sachs Asset Management for $3.55 billion

  • Brookfield Infrastructure in its sale of its interests in NGPL to ArcLight

  • Infinium in the development of a power-to-liquids eFuels facility in Texas that will convert waste carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into SAF and other low carbon fuels, and in its $75 million project equity investment commitment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst

  • Sitio Royalties Corp. in its $4.1 billion merger with Viper Energy

  • Kimmeridge in its acquisition of Commonwealth LNG, a project company developing an LNG liquefaction and export facility

  • Mariana Minerals in its development of a produced water lithium extraction facility in Joaquin, Texas (ongoing)

  • Stonepeak Partners in connection with its investment in Maas Energy Works, a leading renewable natural gas developer in the United States

  • Targa Resources Corporation in its establishment of a joint venture with WPC Parent, LLC in respect of the 2.5 Bcf/d Blackcomb Pipeline in Texas

  • Long Ridge Energy Terminal, a portfolio company of Fortress Investment Group, in the execution of a definitive agreement for the investment in and development of a low carbon, biodegradable plastics production facility in Hannibal, Ohio with Newlight Technologies

  • Oasis Petroleum Inc. in a $6 billion merger of equals with Whiting Petroleum Corporation creating Chord Energy in 2022

  • ARM Energy Holdings, a premier infrastructure and energy marketing services firm, in its acquisition of Monument Pipeline from NextEra Energy Partners

  • AltaGas in the $6.4 billion acquisition of WGL Holdings, owner of a regulated natural gas utility, a midstream franchise and non-regulated contracted power and energy marketing businesses

  • Voyager Midstream, a portfolio company of Pearl Energy, in connection with its acquisition of East Texas gathering and processing assets from Phillips 66

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Credentials

Education

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2012 (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
  • Georgetown University, A.B., History (Honors) and Classics magna cum laude, 2009

Admissions

  • Texas

Recognitions

  • Legal 500 U.S., M&A/Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts, 2022; M&A/Corporate & Commercial: M&A – Large Deals ($1 Billion-Plus), 2023 and 2024
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2019, 2022, and 2023
Insights

Events

Vinson & Elkins Sponsoring and Speaking at the 23rd Annual EIC Conference

Vinson & Elkins is a platinum sponsor of the Energy Infrastructure Council’s (EIC) 23rd Annual Energy Infrastructure CEO & Investor …

May 18, 2026

May 18, 2026 • 1-minute read

Client Alerts

Delaware Amendments Provide Clarity on Conflicted Transactions and Books and Records Requests

Delaware amended the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) to create safe harbors for transactions involving directors, officers and controlling stockholders and to limit both the documents subject to and the purposes of books and records requests.

April 9, 2025 • V&E Corporate Governance Update

April 9, 2025 • 4-minute read

AOL - Corporate Governanace
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