Bennett Yankowitz
Position:
Senior Of Counsel
Bar Admission:
California, 1981 New York, 1989
Education:
University of Cambridge, LL.M., 1981; First Class Honours, International and Comparative Law; Evan Lewis-Thomas Scholarship, 1980-81 University of Southern California Law Center, J.D., 1980; Note Editor, Southern California Law Review University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Mathematics, 1977
Email:
yankowitz@smcounsel.comPhone:
(424) 256-8560
Personal Experience
Ben Yankowitz is an experienced corporate and securities lawyer and entrepreneur. With over 35 years of practice with national law firms, he has extensive experience in all types of business transactions, corporate and securities matters, and financial transactions for corporations, partnerships, investment funds, investor groups, commercial banks, investment banks, money managers, and financial institutions. Ben’s experience includes corporate finance and securities matters, including public offerings, private placements and foreign securities offerings and in mergers and acquisitions. Industries in which he has particular experience include Fintech, oil and gas, entertainment, health care, real estate and venture capital.
Ben has represented and consulted to a number of private investment funds, including venture capital, real estate, private equity and hedge funds. His work includes structuring the funds, advising the management companies and representing the funds on acquisitions and management of portfolio investments.
Ben has also served the President of a California-based oil and gas development company and as president and general counsel of two publicly traded small-cap that have completed reverse acquisitions of private operating companies.
Ben was previously Of Counsel to Kaye Scholer LLP, a Partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and at Henan Blaikie. He was an associate at White & Case and at Rogers & Wells.
