Benjamin Feis

Associate Antitrust & Competition

New York +1 212 909 3492

Benjamin Feis

Practices

Overview

Ben Feis is an antitrust and competition associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on merger investigations, merger litigation and other civil antitrust investigations involving the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.

UnitedHealth Group in DOJ lawsuit challenging UHG's $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare

Fortune Brands as divestiture buyer in DOJ lawsuit challenging ASSA ABLOY's $4.3 billion acquisition of Spectrum Brands' HHI division

EQT Corporation in FTC consent order in connection with EQT's $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill and XcL Midstream

Southwestern Energy in its $7.4 billion merger with Chesapeake Energy

BAE Systems in its $5.5 billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

Primo Water in its merger with BlueTriton Brands to create a combined company with enterprise value of approximately $15 billion

Charter Communications in connection with DOJ Clayton Act Section 8 investigation involving Warner Bros. Discovery

Thoma Bravo in multiple transactions
 
KKR in multiple transactions

Legal FellowUnited States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative LawSummer 2020

Legal InternUnited States Department of Justice, Antitrust DivisionSummer 2019

Analyst, Goldman Sachs & Co., 2016–2018

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2022New York

Education

  • University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.2021

    Staff Member, University of Chicago Law Review

    Doctoroff Business Leadership Program

  • University of PennsylvaniaB.A., Philosophy, Politics and Economicssumma cum laude2016

    Phi Beta Kappa

    College Alumni Society Prize in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

    Goldstone Prize for Best Honors Thesis