Benjamin A. Roberts

Ben advises companies, management teams, creditors, and owners facing complex financial and operational challenges. He draws on more than 20 years of experience as a restructuring advisor, investment banker, and distressed credit investor to preserve enterprise value and improve stakeholder outcomes.

Ben’s experience spans in-court and out-of-court restructurings, liquidity management, refinancings, liability management transactions, distressed M&A, and liquidations. Prior to joining Force 10, he held senior restructuring advisory roles at Novo Advisors and in Riveron’s restructuring practice (formerly Conway MacKenzie). Ben also spent nearly a decade at a special situations fund sourcing, executing, and managing debt-for-control investments in distressed companies in the lower middle market. He began his restructuring career with Casas, Benjamin & White (acquired by Navigant Consulting) and Houlihan Lokey.

Ben has deep experience across the agribusiness sector, advising companies and cooperatives throughout the food and agriculture value chain in both distressed situations and periods of growth. His work in the sector includes restructuring and lender advisory services, M&A and capital markets transactions, and principal investments in underperforming agribusiness assets. He developed his sector expertise while working in BMO Capital Markets’ Food and Agribusiness group, where he executed strategic and financing transactions across agricultural inputs, production agriculture, protein, dairy, packaged food production and distribution, biofuels, and renewable agriculture.

Beyond agribusiness, his recent industry experience includes retail and specialty pharmacy, steel manufacturing, housewares, and decorative lighting.

Ben earned his J.D. (cum laude) and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his B.A. from Michigan State University’s James Madison College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the Illinois Bar (inactive).