Benjamin Fox co-chairs the Social Enterprise + Impact Investing practice and is a partner in the firm’s Transaction Department based in San Francisco. Benjamin’s practice focuses on the representation of clients in broad array of corporate and transactional matters, including early-stage and late-stage financings, secondary transactions, mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, joint ventures and corporate structuring and governance.

For over a decade, Benjamin has advised leading private equity and venture capital funds, family offices and venture-backed companies focused on solving some of society’s most pressing challenges. His practice spans the energy transition and decarbonization, scientific R&D, natural capital and conservation investments, food innovation and security and breakthrough technologies in life sciences, space and AI. Benjamin’s representative clients include Generation Investment Management, Just Climate, America’s Frontier Fund, Nature’s Fynd, Acario, Builders Vision, and Aurelia Foundry.

As the co-lead of the firm’s Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Group, Benjamin regularly advises clients on creative legal structures with respect to aggregating and deploying capital to maximize impact and returns, including hybrid or “tandem” structuring arrangements between nonprofit and for-profit entities. His representative philanthropic and impact clients include Elemental Impact, Rockefeller Foundation, Mark1, Rocky Mountain Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Breakthrough Energy Foundation, GRID Alternatives and Waverley Street Foundation.

Benjamin earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law , where he served as an executive editor of Ecology Law Quarterly and a member of the California Law Review. Benjamin now serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley Law, teaching a course on the intersection of climate change and corporate governance.

Prior to law school, Benjamin spent a year at Taiwan’s Tunghai University researching renewable energy and urban development policy on a Fulbright Fellowship. He earned his B.A. with distinction and highest honors from the University of Michigan.