Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Financial Institutions

Partner

Ben is a member of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions practice. He is a former White House and U.S. Treasury Department official, advises U.S. and non-U.S. clients on the regulatory aspects of cross border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investments and other transactions. He is known in particular for deep experience on matters relating to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

In five years of government service, Ben held senior legal and policy roles involving national security and foreign investment. He is one of few practitioners to have served as both a CFIUS lawyer at Treasury and a CFIUS policymaker at the White House, giving him deep, hands on experience with every facet of the CFIUS process, from conducting initial jurisdictional analyses to coordinating presidential prohibitions.