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Mr C. David DeBenedetti

Work Department

M&A; Corporate finance; Foreign investment; International arbitration

Position

Partner, NY Attorney

Career

C. David DeBenedetti specializes in issues related to investment funds and hedge funds, as well as venture capital transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. He also deals with planning and implementing investments, specifically in their cross-border aspects.

He has worked for several years with hedge funds which invest or find themselves involving in difficult situations and helps them in solving their problems, thus giving him broad experience in working on multi-faceted strategies including litigation and transactional expertise.

In October 2008, David DeBenedetti joined the Lazarski School of Commerce and Law. He teaches seminars to post-masters students. He is teaching at the Boston University/Lazarski LLM program as an adjunct professor. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for a program offering an LLM in International Business Practice of the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg.

Attorney of the State of New York since 2001, entered on the list of foreign lawyers at the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw.

Since 2010 he has been Arbitrator in the Court of Arbitration at the National Chamber of Commerce.

Between 1997 – 2004, he cooperated with the Warsaw and New York offices of an international law firm.

He has spoken on a number of international meetings and conferences, mainly in New York and Japan. Since 2015 David DeBenedetti has been a member of the board of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan and advises Japanese clients on investing and other issues related to business in Poland.

He has been a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association since 2005.

Languages

English (native), Polish.

Memberships

American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Board Member of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan.

Education

University of Toledo (B.A., cum laude 1991) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1996).

Leisure

Traveling, local history, international relations.