Alon Benjamin Harish
Advises public and private companies and private equity sponsors on a broad range of U.S. and cross-border M&A, activism and corporate governance matters.
Alon advises public and private companies and private equity sponsors on a broad range of U.S. and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures, de-SPACs and other complex transactions. He also counsels boards, special committees and management teams in connection with shareholder activism, proxy contests, unsolicited takeover offers and corporate governance matters. He has advised U.S. and international clients across industries, including technology, media and telecommunications, energy, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, consumer and retail, industrials and financial services.
Experience
Selected Representations
- Boots Group $8.9 billion sale of Boots to Wittington Investments
- Open Standard stablecoin consortium
- Baldwin Group $7.7 billion take-private by Sequence and Dell Family Office
- Arxis $1.3 billion IPO
- Elliott Investment Management $1 billion strategic investment in Pinterest
- TWG Global / Mubadala $6.2 billion acquisition of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings
- VF $600 million sale of Dickies to Bluestar Alliance
- UST sale of HealthProof to Bain
- SMBC Aviation Capital $7.4 billion acquisition of Air Lease
Education
- James Kent Scholar
- Managing Editor, Columbia Law Review
- cum laude
- with distinction
- President’s Public Service Fellowship
Clerkships
Prior experience
- Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 2016-2025
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York