Benjamin R. Wills

Partner

As co-leader of the firm’s global mergers and acquisitions practice, Benjamin R. Wills has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities compliance, and corporate governance issues. Ben represents multinational public and private companies from a variety of industries, including energy, life sciences, telecommunications, technology, financial services and manufacturing. In the energy industry, Ben has experience in midstream and downstream oil and gas transactions, including the representation master limited partnerships and negotiating complex, long-term commercial agreements.

selected representations

Significant transactional representations include:

HollyFrontier Corporation in its $1.8 billion acquisition on Sinclair Oil
Buckeye Partners in its $250 million acquisition of marine terminals in New Haven, CT, Wilmington, DE, and Marrero, LA from Magellan Midstream
Tucows in the sale of Ting Mobile to DISH Network Corporation and the entry into complex Mobile Services Enabler Agreements
HollyFrontier in its $350 million acquisition of the Puget Sound refinery from Shell
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation in the $240 million sale of its global Extremity Orthopedics business to Smith+Nephew
Buckeye Partners in its $1.7 billion acquisition and development of condensate splitters and a high-volume marine crude terminal from Trafigura, including the negotiation of numerous long-term tolling, storage, throughput and dock services agreements
Pennsylvania Trust Company in its sale to Fiduciary Trust International, a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton
Buckeye Partners in the in the formation of a joint venture with Phillips 66 Partners and Marathon to develop the $300 million deep-water, open access South Texas Gateway marine terminal in Ingleside, Texas
HollyFrontier in its $655 million acquisition of Sonneborn, a specialty producer of white oils, petrolatums, and waxes
HollyFrontier in its $1.25 billion IDR elimination transaction with Holly Energy Partners, including the acquisition of common units of Holly Energy Partners
Pearson plc in the multi-billion dollar formation of the Penguin Random House joint venture, resulting in the largest English language publisher in the world
HollyFrontier in its $845 million acquisition of Suncor Energy's Petro-Canada lubricants business
A terminalling and storage company in its $850 million acquisition of 20 liquids storage marine terminals, including the negotiation of long-term storage and throughput agreements
Braskem Americas Inc. in its acquisition of propylene splitters and related assets at the Marcus Hook refinery from Sunoco Inc., including the negotiation of tolling and offtake agreements