Corporate

Benesch’s award-winning Corporate Practice Group is a trusted legal and business partner to clients navigating critical inflection points, from growth-stage acceleration to complex cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions. With deep bench strength, cross-disciplinary collaboration and a relentless focus on client value, we provide strategic guidance that aligns with business priorities, mitigates risk and positions our clients for long-term success.

Overview

With more than 100 dedicated attorneys, our Corporate Practice Group is growing rapidly nationwide. We serve as lead counsel on transformative deals and as outside general counsel to emerging and established companies. Our attorneys handle everything from day-to-day corporate and governance needs to billion-dollar mergers, leveraged buyouts and public offerings. Our clients include public and private companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, institutional investors, family offices, founders and boards of directors across industries.

In 2025 alone, our team successfully closed nearly 700 corporate and private equity deals worth billions of dollars in transactional enterprise value, with several dozen of our deals exceeding $100 million in value.

Our Corporate Practice Group is regularly recognized by Chambers® USA. We are also ranked nationally in Corporate Law, Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities/Capital Markets Law and Securities Regulation by Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.”

Unmatched Experience. Market-Informed Perspective.

Our lawyers bring a practical, business-minded approach, deep industry fluency and a strong command of market trends to every engagement. We know what matters in a deal and what matters to investors, boards and stakeholders. Clients trust us for our responsiveness, creativity and the ability to deliver efficient, high-impact results.

We counsel clients on the full range of corporate, transactional and governance matters, including:

  • Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
  • Public offerings and private placements of securities
  • Private equity investments
  • Domestic and international joint ventures
  • Employment contracts, equity plans and incentive programs
  • Non-compete, non-solicit and confidentiality agreements
  • Partnership agreements and shareholder agreements
  • Contract negotiations and commercial agreements
  • General business counseling and outside general counsel support
  • ESG and board counseling

Benesch is a go-to law firm for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies across the full investment lifecycle. Our clients include growth equity funds, independent sponsors, mezzanine lenders and family offices engaged in buyouts, recapitalizations, divestitures and co-investments.

Our Private Equity team distinguishes itself with:

  • A dedicated middle-market focus
  • Deep experience across consumer, healthcare, logistics, industrials, software and services
  • Significant deal flow and market visibility
  • Introductions to operators, funders and deal opportunities
  • Post-close portfolio support and portfolio company growth strategies
  • Innovative resources like custom training, diligence support, data rooms and more

We have represented private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in platform acquisitions and add-ons in nearly every sector—including dental and healthcare services, manufacturing, defense, software, logistics, aerospace, energy, marketing and financial services—with transaction values ranging from under $10 million to over $1 billion.

Benesch has represented publicly traded companies for decades, with experience spanning:

  • Public offerings and private placements
  • PIPEs and SPAC combinations
  • ’33 and ’34 Act compliance
  • SOX and Dodd-Frank compliance
  • SEC periodic and proxy filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Section 16, etc.)
  • NYSE/NASDAQ rules and requirements
  • Shareholder activism, proxy contests and takeover defense
  • Investor relations and board education
  • Disclosure controls, document retention and governance policies

We advise boards, officers, issuers, underwriters and institutional investors in equity and debt offerings and other capital markets transactions, including tender offers, recapitalizations, special committee matters and governance transitions. Our clients range from emerging growth companies to multinational public companies in manufacturing, healthcare, consumer products and beyond.

We serve as outside general counsel for dozens of companies, from venture-backed startups to mature middle-market enterprises, providing day-to-day legal and strategic business counsel. We collaborate seamlessly across Benesch’s practices to deliver proactive advice on corporate governance, commercial contracting, risk management, data security, labor and employment, tax, IP and litigation matters.

Our attorneys are trusted for their sound judgment, practical guidance and ability to translate legal insight into business action.

We bring sector-specific experience across a wide range of industries, including:

  • Software & Technology
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing, Plastics & Polymers
  • Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Consumer Products & Retail
  • Financial Services
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Professional & Business Services
  • Education
  • Food & Beverage
  • Marketing
  • Real Estate, and more

Our firm also has dedicated interdisciplinary teams in niche areas such as Plastics, Polymers, Data Centers, Healthcare and Government Relations, allowing us to provide integrated counsel tailored to our clients’ markets.

Our work in action

Representative Examples

Represented Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) as legal counsel in the successful completion of the spin-off

of its Advanced Materials business, now operating as Solstice Advanced Materials. The year-long project involved more than 50 Benesch attorneys from a range of practice areas, reflecting the firm’s collaborative and business-minded approach to complex corporate transactions.

Represented Loar Holdings Inc. in its $354M initial public offering

of 12.65 million shares of its common stock at $28 per share.

Advised private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners

on its definitive agreement to acquire a majority equity stake of Berkeley Research Group, an industry-leading expert services and consulting firm.

Advised Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc.,

a global leader in filtration solutions, on its definitive agreement to acquire Koch Filter Corporation for $450 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.

Represented Palmetto in its acquisition

of The Cool Down, the world’s leading clean lifestyle media platform, marking the first time a clean energy company has acquired a clean lifestyle platform.

Represented Francisco Partners portfolio company

Truven by Merative in its acquisition of Springbuk, a leading health intelligence solution for employers.

Serve as long-standing outside counsel

to numerous private equity-backed healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and SaaS companies.

High performance in practice

Recognized by Chambers® 2025

Ranked Nationally

in Corporate Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law, and Securities Regulation – 2026 Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”

Named a Standout in M&A

BTI Consulting Group

Award-Winning Leadership

including recognitions from The Deal, ACG, Global M&A Network and more

Experience