Benjamin N. Heriaud
The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036
Ben advises corporate, private equity sponsor and investment banking clients in corporate transactions and governance matters. He specializes in capital-raising transactions, with a focus on initial public offerings, alternative, hybrid and private capital transactions, acquisition financings and high-yield debt offerings.
Ben also regularly counsels sponsors, boards of directors and management teams in mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions and disclosure, corporate governance and compliance matters.
Ben covers a variety of industries, with particular experience in technology and industrials.
Experience Highlights
Gates Industrial Corporation plc, a global manufacturer of innovative, highly engineered power transmission and fluid power solutions, in its IPO and follow-on offerings
Underwriters to Duck Creek Technologies, Paycor HCM and Shift4 Payments in IPOs and follow-on offerings
Apollo in its minority investment in PetSmart
Coatue as the lead investor in a $1.1 billion Series C funding round in CoreWeave, Inc., a specialized GPU cloud provider
Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman as sponsors in $17 billion debt financing transactions for their majority investment in Medline, a leading manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies
Ashton Woods, one of the nation’s largest private homebuilders, in its senior notes offerings
Gates Industrial Corporation plc, a global manufacturer of innovative, highly engineered power transmission and fluid power solutions, in its $841 million initial public offering of ordinary shares and its combined $1.3 billion offerings of ordinary shares
Underwriters to Paycor HCM, Inc., a human capital management SaaS provider, in its $489 million initial public offering of common stock and its combined $850 million offerings of common stock
Underwriters to Duck Creek Technologies, an insurance SaaS provider, in its $465 million initial public offering of common stock and its combined $802 million offerings of common stock
Underwriters to Shift4 Payments, end-to-end payments technology provider, in its $397 million initial public offering of common stock and its combined $980 million offerings of common stock
Underwriters to Bioventus, a medical device company, in its $120 million initial public offering of common stock
Apollo in its minority investment in PetSmart
Coatue as the lead investor in a $1.1 billion Series C funding round in CoreWeave, Inc., a specialized GPU cloud provider
World Insurance Associates and Charlesbank Capital Partners in Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s over $1 billion equity and subordinated debt investment in World
Funds affiliated with Hill Path Capital in a $150 million preferred equity investment in The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. in connection with The ONE Group’s acquisition of the owner of Benihana Inc.
Johnson Controls in the sale of its Power Solutions business to Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
The ODP Corporation in the sale of its CompuCom Systems subsidiary
Vivint Smart Home in its $4.2 billion business combination with Mosaic Acquisition Corp.
Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman as sponsors in $17 billion debt financing transactions for their majority investment in Medline, a leading manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies
KKR in $1.9 billion notes and preferred stock offerings for its acquisition of Global Atlantic
Summit Materials, Inc. in connection with the financing, including an offering of $800 million of senior notes, for its $3.2 billion combination with the U.S. operations of Cementos Argos S.A.
Initial purchasers in Regal Rexnord’s $4.7 Billion debut senior notes offering for its acquisition of Altra Industrial Motion Corp.
Initial purchasers in debut senior notes offering in connection with the combination of 3M’s Food Safety Business with Neogen in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
Symantec in debt financing for its $2.3 billion acquisition of LifeLock
Aramark in $3 billion of debt financing transactions for its acquisitions of Avendra and AmeriPride Services
Ashton Woods in its $650 million offering of senior notes
Medline in its $1.5 billion offerings of senior secured notes in connection with term loan repricings and its $2.3 billion CMBS refinancing
Initial purchasers in Switch, Inc.’s $600 million debut offering of senior notes and its $500 million acquisition financing
Initial purchasers in Shift4 Payments, Inc.’s $450 million debut offering of senior notes
Initial purchasers in Global Auto Holdings Limited’s $1.05 billion debut offering of senior notes
Initial purchasers in Ferrellgas, L.P.’s $700 million debut offering of senior secured notes and $1.5 billion debt restructuring
Initial purchasers in TechnipFMC’s $1 billion debut offering of senior notes in connection with its spinoff of Technip Energies
Dealer managers in tender offers and/or consent solicitations by issuers including GameStop, Regal Rexnord and Shift4 Payments
Credentials
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2013 (Editorial Board, Virginia Law and Business Review)
- University of Virginia, B.A. Economics and History, 2009
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Corporate Law (New York), 2024 and 2025
- New York City Bar Association Securities Regulation Committee
- New York
- Deals & CasesOctober 3, 2024
- Deals & CasesAugust 15, 2024