Attorney Benton Bodamer Joins Dickinson Wright's Columbus Office as a Member

Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Attorney Benton B. Bodamer has joined the firm’s Columbus office as a Member.

Mr. Bodamer focuses his practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and general corporate transactional matters. He represents a number of leading international private equity sponsors, and has also represented a wide range of public and private companies. He regularly advises clients on complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, minority investments, commercial arrangements, divestitures, and restructurings.

A frequent speaker, Mr. Bodamer routinely counsels and trains nonprofit organizations and their boards of directors on various corporate governance and transactional matters, and has served as outside counsel to dozens of charitable organizations, including as lead pro bono counsel to the United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley in a groundbreaking multi-year pay-for-success public/private collaboration that is providing permanent supportive housing to hundreds of chronically homeless individuals.

Mr. Bodamer currently serves on the board of the nonprofit organization NoticeAbility, which designs e-based curricula catering to the neurological strengths of the dyslexic mind. He is also an advisory board member of Calmer Choice, a universal prevention program that promotes mindful awareness for children as a means to manage stress and reduce conflict. He has served on various other boards, including most recently the legal assistance organization Lawyers Clearinghouse, and the nonprofit Friends of Harvard Track.

Mr. Bodamer was previously recognized as an “Up and Coming Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and was selected as a 2012 member of the Public Interest Leadership Program. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, his M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and was a Moritz Scholar at The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, receiving his J.D. cum laude.