Ben Baldwin advises financial institutions, investment funds, developers, and other businesses on financing transactions, joint ventures, acquisitions, and strategic corporate objectives. His practice spans a broad range of corporate finance and commercial transactions, with particular experience in lending, private credit, mezzanine finance, subscription credit facilities, and equity investments. He represents both capital providers and borrowers, giving him a practical understanding of transactions from multiple perspectives.
Ben regularly counsels clients on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and other business transactions. His joint venture experience includes real estate, product supply, and technology ventures, while his acquisition and disposition work has involved businesses across a range of industries, including manufacturing, media, health care, and cemetery and funeral home operations.
Beyond individual transactions, Ben advises businesses on governance, ownership, and operational issues. He counsels clients on shareholder and operating agreements, capital and debt structures, ownership disputes and buyouts, commercial contracts, and other day-to-day business needs. He has also served as outside general counsel to several clients.
Ben has held numerous leadership positions within the North Carolina Bar Association, including service on its board of governors and as chair of the Business Law Section. For 13 years, he served as the general editor of Robinson on North Carolina Corporation Law, a LexisNexis treatise.