Zach Bench

He/Him

Partner

Admitted to practice only in California and New York. Supervised by partners in the Seattle office.

T 206.757.8295 Seattle
T 415.276.4867 San Francisco
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Zach Bench is an attorney in the firm's corporate and business transactions practice group. He is a trusted partner in advancing his clients' growth and business goals, counseling private equity firms, public and private companies, and other clients on their most complex deals, as well as securities law and corporate governance.

Drawing from experience representing clients from both traditional and emerging industries, including the financial services and space sectors, Zach leverages his broad expertise to provide strategic guidance on high-level transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations and joint ventures. He also represents investors and issuers in early- and late-stage preferred stock and convertible promissory note financing rounds.

Practice Highlights

Private equity

Zach is an active member of Davis Wright Tremaine's private equity practice. Zach's recent matters include representing Franchise Equity Partners in several acquisition and investment transactions, Kestra Financial, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, in numerous acquisitions, Cetera Financial Group, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital, in several acquisition transactions, DoseSpot, a portfolio company of PSG Equity, in an acquisition, and Westward Partners in its acquisition of Three Bears Alaska, one of the leading retailers in western Alaska.

Financial services

Zach has extensive experience representing financial services entities in transactions. In the past year, he represented Kestra Financial, the parent company of Bluespring Wealth Partners, in Bluespring's acquisitions of several wealth management firms, Cetera Financial Group in several acquisition and investment transactions, Capital Management Group in its strategic investment by Hightower and PLH Financial Holdings and Legacy One Financial Holdings in a strategic investment by Arax Investment Partners in their affiliated entity, U.S. Capital Wealth Advisors.