Benjamin B. Bedell Benjamin Bedell is of counsel to Sadis & Goldberg, LLP and is a member of the Corporate and Financial Services Group of the Firm. Mr. Bedell counsels hedge funds, venture capital investors and early stage companies on all aspects of formation, regulation and transactions. Mr. Bedell’s practice focuses on the negotiation of partnership and shareholder agreements for both domestic and offshore investment entities. He also represents issuers and investors in private placements and advises on securities law and corporate compliance issues. With over 12 years experience in all phases of corporate finance, mostly at large New York City firms, Mr. Bedell draws on a broad background to service his clients. Mr. Bedell specializes in representing funds in distressed debt and derivatives transactions. He helped author the LSTA form document that governs distressed debt transactions in the U.S. and regularly negotiates deals utilizing the ISDA form. He often represents U.S. based hedge funds in the purchase of European and other offshore assets. His broad background in debt and equity issuance and the secondary trading of these assets is useful to clients seeking advice on transactions in these areas. He regularly advises distressed debt funds on the purchase and sale of secured debt and bankruptcy claims and counsels on workout and bankruptcy related issues. He also advises early stage companies in the structuring of capital raising and exit strategies. Mr. Bedell graduated from Columbia University and Yale Law School. He clerked for the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor when she served as a District Court judge in the Southern District of New York. He is a member of the bar of New York and Massachusetts, and is admitted to practice before the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He came to Sadis & Goldberg from the New York office of one of the world’s largest law firms.