Duane Morris & Selvam LLP

Corporate

Director

Areas of Practice:

Securities Law International Capital Markets Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions Corporate Law Commercial Law Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Jamie A. Bensonhas more than 20 years' experience practicing as a corporate lawyer. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Banking and Finance industry group. Mr. Benson is currently based in Singapore, having previously worked in New York, Sydney and London. Mr. Benson is the head of Duane Morris & Selvam's U.S. securities law practice, India practice desk and Myanmar capital markets practice.

Mr. Benson's experience includes advising on: equity offerings (public offerings and private placements); high-yield, convertible and investment-grade bond offerings; debt private placements; SEC-registered equity and debt offerings; mergers and acquisitions of both U.S. and non-U.S. public companies; going private transactions; SEC reporting obligations, compliance with U.S. broker-dealer laws, general corporate law matters, commercial law matters and FCPA matters.

Mr. Benson has a wide range of industry experience, including working on deals involving companies in the following industries: aviation; banking; beer and wine; business process outsourcing; cable television; construction; electricity transmission and distribution; film production; gambling; healthcare, infrastructure; jewelry; insurance; mining; non-banking financial companies (NBFCs); oil and gas; print media; property; telecommunications; television broadcasting; and toll roads.

Mr. Benson is cited by IFLR 1000 as a Leading Lawyer/Highly Regarded, Financial and Corporate, Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity, M&A for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 and by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Recommended Lawyer for Capital Markets for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In addition, he is named in the A-list – Singapore's top 100 lawyers 2019, Asian Business Law Journal and the International A-List for India-focused legal experts outside the country (top 100 India-focused legal experts outside India) for 2019 by India Business Law Journal.

Mr. Benson has advised on more than 100 equity and debt offerings throughout the world with total proceeds of approximately US$21 billion. He is one of the leading international legal counsels on securities offerings by Indian issuers, having worked on more than 60 deals by Indian issuers in the last 14 years. Mr. Benson led the firm’s team that acted as U.S. legal counsel to the President of India on the sale of Rs. 27 billion (US$406 million) of shares in NHPC Limited in an offer for sale (including a Rule 144A offering in the U.S.), which was listed in "Deals of the Year 2016" by India Business Law Journal. He led the firm's team that advised First Myanmar Investment Co., Ltd. on its historic listing on the Yangon Stock Exchange, which was the first listing on that stock exchange. That deal was listed in "2016 Deals of the Year - Capital Markets" by Asia Business Law Journal and "Deals of the Year 2016" by asian-mena Counsel and was a finalist in Emerging Markets Awards for Capital Markets Deal of the Year: Equity 2016 by The Asian Lawyer.

Mr. Benson has represented almost all of the major global and Indian investment banks.

Mr. Benson studied law at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), where he was a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and was awarded a B.A. and an M.A. He was awarded a Henry Arthur Hollond Travelling Scholarship in Law by Trinity College and received his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Benson is admitted to practice law in New York, USA and Tasmania, Australia.

English

University of Virginia School of Law, LL.M., 1996 University of Cambridge (Trinity College), B.A. (Law), 1994 University of Cambridge (Trinity College), M.A., 1998