Mr. Benson brings more than 20 years of tax consulting experience advising on a range of domestic and international taxation issues. His areas of concentration include domestic and cross-border M&A, tax due diligence, cash tax modeling, complex carve-out transactions, capital structure planning, reorganizations, group structure changes, entity rationalization, global tax structuring, cash and effective tax rate optimization, and the integration of existing and acquired businesses. Mr. Benson has worked with clients across various industries, including healthcare, software and technology, energy, consulting, manufacturing, and infrastructure.

In addition, Mr. Benson has significant experience with tax planning for startups and rapidly growing businesses, including IP planning, global expansion and cross-border tax issues, tax accounting methods and periods, and tax optimization of global supply chains. He has also worked extensively with tax attribute planning in the context of M&A transactions and bankruptcy/restructuring situations.

Mr. Benson’s clients have included a variety of public and private corporations, as well as domestic and international private equity firms. Notable clients include a highly acquisitive Fortune Global 500 organization, a large Europe-based private equity firm investing in global healthcare, technology, and infrastructure assets, and a large domestic private equity fund investing in consumer goods and business services transactions. He also sits on the A&M Tax Global Executive Committee.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Benson served in the M&A Tax practice at PwC.

Mr. Benson earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in taxation from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.