Benjamin Alexander is a corporate attorney representing start-up enterprises, venture-backed companies, family-owned businesses and publicly-traded companies in areas including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, e-commerce, securities compliance and corporate governance.

Benjamin's experience includes representing both issuers and underwriters on public offerings and private placements of securities, mergers, acquisitions, reverse mergers, IPOs, PIPEs, '33 Act registration statements, going private transaction, equity compensation plans, contested proxy solicitations, asset based lines of credit, sales of public companies, and '34 Act and blue sky compliance. His experience also includes counseling life science, medical technology, software, Internet and new media organizations on licensing, joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as general corporate matters. He is admitted to practice law in California, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

Previously, as general counsel of a public company trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, Benjamin advised the company's management team in areas including corporate finance, corporate governance, SEC registrations and reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, employment law, litigation management, intellectual property law, licensing and contracting.

Before entering the legal profession, Benjamin worked as a systems engineer, specializing in digital circuit design, programming and systems integration.

• Exchange Offer and Merger of Thermo Instrument Systems into Thermo Electron
• Merger of Thermo Optek into Thermo Instrument Systems
• Exchange Offer and Merger of Thermedics into Thermo Electron
• W. W. Williams Reverse Stock Split Going-Private Transaction
• Acquisition of Hercules Aerospace by Alliant TechSystems
• Acquisition of Heilongjiang Xing An Group Mining Companies by Songzai International Holding Group, Inc.
• Fidelity Management and Research’s Rule 144A and Regulation S Offering of $750,000,000 7.57% Debentures and $250,000,000 7.49% Debentures
• Lotus Pharmaceuticals PIPE Placement of $5,000,000 Series A Convertible Preferred Shares
• Representation of dissident stockholder in proxy contest for Alliant TechSystems
• Representation of dissident stockholder in proxy contest for National Convenience Stores and acquisition of National Convenience Stores by Diamond Shamrock
• Spin-off of Kandant, Inc.
• COLT Telecom Initial Public Offering of 26,700,000 Ordinary Shares in the form of ordinary shares and ADRs (£73,425,000) and Registered Offering of 314,000 Units consisting of One 12% Senior Discount Note and One Warrant to Purchase 7.8 Ordinary Shares ($175,450,000)
• Novamerican Steel Initial Public Offering of 2,200,000 Common Shares ($30,800,000)