Benjamin Persina is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Firm’s Banking and Credit Practice. He represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as public and private companies, in a wide variety of secured lending, direct lending, and other financing transactions. He also regularly represents leading financial institutions and investment banks with the arrangement and syndication of senior credit facilities, including acquisition, bridge and other corporate financings. His clients have included, among many others, Blackstone, Cimpress, First Eagle Alternative Capital BDC, Hellman & Friedman, JPMorgan, New Mountain Capital, Silver Lake, Stonepeak and Twitter.
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Work Highlights
- New Mountain Capital in multiple financings, including its acquisitions of NSM Insurance Group’s U.S. commercial insurance division, Broadcast Music, Natrol, ILC Dover, Profile Products, PerkinElmer’s applied, food and enterprise services businesses and its investments in Citrin Cooperman, Datassential and the non-attest business of Grant Thornton
- Advanced Instruments, a Patricia Industries portfolio company, in the financing related to its definitive agreement to acquire and merge with Nova Biomedical for $2.2 billion
- Funds affiliated with Brookfield Asset Management in the $1.7 billion acquisition of the Thermal Management business of nVent Electric
- Centerbridge Partners in its strategic investment, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, in Carr, Riggs & Ingram
- Hellman & Friedman in its strategic investment, alongside Valeas Capital Partners, in Baker Tilly
- TPG Rise Climate in the financing to acquire AmSpec Group, Inc. and subsequent syndicated refinancing
- The Board of Directors of Twitter, Inc. in financing related matters relating to Twitter’s acquisition by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2010 J.D.
cum laude
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University of Pennsylvania, 2005 B.A.
summa cum laude
Admissions
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District of Columbia 2019
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New York 2011
Benjamin Persina is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Firm’s Banking and Credit Practice. He represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as public and private companies, in a wide variety of secured lending, direct lending, and other financing transactions. He also regularly represents leading financial institutions and investment banks with the arrangement and syndication of senior credit facilities, including acquisition, bridge and other corporate financings. His clients have included, among many others, Blackstone, Cimpress, First Eagle Alternative Capital BDC, Hellman & Friedman, JPMorgan, New Mountain Capital, Silver Lake, Stonepeak and Twitter.
Benjamin’s recent work highlights include advising:
- Advanced Instruments, a Patricia Industries portfolio company, in the financing related to its definitive agreement to acquire and merge with Nova Biomedical for $2.2 billion
- Funds affiliated with Brookfield Asset Management in the $1.7 billion acquisition of the Thermal Management business of nVent Electric
- The Board of Directors of Twitter, Inc. in financing related matters relating to Twitter’s acquisition by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk
- Hellman & Friedman in its $2.3 billion first lien term loan facility, its $275 million first lien revolving credit facility and its $900 million second lien term loan facility used to finance its acquisition of UKG Inc. (f/k/a The Ultimate Software Group) in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $11 billion
- New Mountain Capital in multiple financings, including its acquisitions of NSM Insurance Group’s U.S. commercial insurance division, Broadcast Music, Natrol, ILC Dover, Profile Products, PerkinElmer’s applied, food and enterprise services businesses and its investments in Citrin Cooperman, Datassential and the non-attest business of Grant Thornton
- Centerbridge Partners in its strategic investment, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, in Carr, Riggs & Ingram
- Hellman & Friedman in its strategic investment, alongside Valeas Capital Partners, in Baker Tilly
- Lead arranger in the arrangement of committed bridge financings for an aggregate amount of approximately $3.74 billion related to Regal Beloit’s acquisition of Rexnord’s Process & Motion Control segment in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
- Silver Lake Partners in its acquisition of TEG, Asia Pacific’s leading live entertainment and ticketing company
- TPG Rise Climate in the financing to acquire AmSpec Group, Inc. and subsequent syndicated refinancing
Benjamin received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2010 and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Benjamin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.