Benjamin M. Ellis
Special Counsel
New York, NY156 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
P 212.237.1189 F 212.262.1215
P 212.237.1189 F 212.262.1215
Experience
Ben's practice focuses on representing banks, direct lenders, and factors in secured and unsecured lending transactions, as well as loan restructurings, workouts, and asset recovery matters. He has extensive experience in leading due diligence and structuring, negotiating and closing middle-market and small cap lending and factoring transactions.
Prior to Windels Marx, for more than 16 years, Ben was in-house counsel with a direct lender that focused on asset-based lending and factoring solutions for small and middle market borrowers across industries. In that capacity, he led the legal department as EVP, General Counsel.
He also worked for an international law firm and a pro bono legal services firm that served poor, elderly and disabled residents of NYC.
While in law school, Ben was an Articles Editor for the Cardozo Law Review (Note Published).
Practices
- Financial Transactions
- Asset-Based Lending
- Middle Market Lending
- Corporate Finance & Syndicated Lending
- Corporate & Securities
- Corporate Formation & Finance
- Real Estate
- Joint Venture/Equity Investments
- Workouts & Restructurings
- Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
- Representation of Secured & Unsecured Creditors
- Bankruptcy-Related Litigation & Transactions
Education
- J.D., Dean's Merit Scholarship, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- B.A., Chemistry, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Little Rock, AR)
- B.A., German, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)
Admissions
- New York (2010)