Andrew M. Benton

Andrew Benton works in the firm’s Corporate practice and advises a wide range of business clients.

Andrew enjoys travel, hiking and running half-marathons.

• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US)
• North Carolina Bar Association

• Comments Editor, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 99
• IAPP Westin Scholar Award, 2021 (outstanding privacy law student)
• Millard S. Breckinridge Prize in Law, 2021 (outstanding tax law student)
• Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award

• Advised the owner and operator of a petroleum marketing, convenience retailing, and quick service restaurant business and the owners of related real estate on sale to a private equity firm.
• Advised a U.S. clinical research organization on the purchase of all of the equity of a specialty UK-based clinical research organization.
• Advised a leading utilities, solar, and electrical contractor in a definitive agreement to be acquired by an independent sponsor for an undisclosed amount of cash and equity.

• Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of a leading digital patient recruitment company.