Benjamin M. Galic

Associate

Ben Galic assists clients on a wide range of real estate and corporate transactional matters.

Ben represents landlords, tenants, lenders, and business owners in a wide range of real estate transactional matters involving the acquisition, financing, leasing, operation, and disposition of commercial and agricultural properties.

Ben also advises clients on a variety of general corporate and business matters, including entity formation, operating agreements, strategic transactions, and day-to-day commercial contracting.

Ben brings additional transactional experience from his prior role as an associate at a large international law firm, where he represented sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors in co-investments and complex secondary transactions. His practice focused on advising both buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of pre-existing investor commitments in private equity and other alternative investment funds, with transactions ranging from several hundred million dollars to approximately $2 billion in value.

Ben is known for providing practical, business-oriented counsel and helping clients navigate transactions with efficiency and attention to detail.

Professional, Community And Pro Bono Involvement

  • Sacramento County Bar Association
  • California Lawyers Association
  • GLIDE Unconditional Legal Clinic
  • Immigration Institute of the Bay Area
  • American Bar Association’s Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP)
  • USF Law Review, Articles Editor
  • USF Moot Court Program

Honors & Rankings

  • Externship, Honorable Tracie L. Brown, First District Court of Appeal
  • CALI Awards for Legal Research and Writing, Contracts II, and Environmental Law

Secondary Transactions

  • Represented a Southeast Asian sovereign wealth fund in two secondary sales of large
    portfolios of interests with deal sizes of approximately $1.7 billion and $2.1 billion.
  • Represented two lead investors in the purchase of fund interests from Wells Fargo &
    Company totaling over $2 billion in deal size.
  • Represented one of Australia’s largest investment managers in a recapitalization of a
    portfolio of 27 fund interests into a $600+ million continuation fund.
  • Represented a U.S. based investment management firm in a tender offer in connection
    with the purchase of a portfolio of fund interests.
  • Represented a U.S. based investment management firm in a secondary sale of a portfolio
    of 35 fund interests totaling over $200 million in deal size.
  • Represented U.S. based institutional investors and foreign sovereign investors in several
    secondary sales and acquisitions of portfolios of fund interests.

Co-Investments

  • Represented sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and institutional investors in
    co-investments ranging in size from several million to several hundred million.

 

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In his free time, Ben enjoys camping, hiking, traveling, and seeing live music.

Professional, Community And Pro Bono Involvement

  • Sacramento County Bar Association
  • California Lawyers Association
  • GLIDE Unconditional Legal Clinic
  • Immigration Institute of the Bay Area
  • American Bar Association’s Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP)
  • USF Law Review, Articles Editor
  • USF Moot Court Program

Honors & Rankings

  • Externship, Honorable Tracie L. Brown, First District Court of Appeal
  • CALI Awards for Legal Research and Writing, Contracts II, and Environmental Law