Mr. Benson brings more than 15 years of tax consulting experience advising on a range of domestic and international taxation issues. His professional focus has been on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, 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 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 start-up 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 European-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.

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