Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Experience in Connection with the Following Transactions:

• Negotiated employment and separation agreements for chief executive and senior-level officers of numerous large-cap public companies, private portfolio companies, and private equity funds.
• Restructured a limited liability company’s operating agreement to incorporate profits interests, including catch-up provisions.
• Provided guidance on COBRA obligations in connection with a client’s acquisition of a subsidiary target from a foreign seller.
• Advised a client on meeting coverage and reporting obligations under health care law requirements.
• Counseled a special trustee on the termination of qualified retirement plans.
• Assisted with obtaining several IRS private letter rulings, including for matters involving master and group trusts.
• Prepared submissions about compensation arrangements for filing under the correction program of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.

Employee Executive Compensation Experience

• Represented the parent company of security monitoring and medical alert technology companies in an investment transaction with a private equity firm focused on the software and IT services industries.
• Advised an alternative asset manager focused on investments in communications and infrastructure assets on its acquisition of 90% of the wireless tower business of a real estate investment trust for approximately $220 million in cash.
• Represented a Canadian insurance and wealth management group in its acquisition of a vehicle warranty company and its subsidiaries for $720 million following a competitive auction process.
• Advised a private equity firm focused on middle market company investments in the sale of an electronic transaction-processing company’s parent to a group of investors that included management.
• Represented a Boston-based computer software and services company in its acquisition of a computer-aided design company for about $470 million cash.
• Advised a direct-to-consumer life insurance company in its $150 million initial public offering of common stock.
• Represented a holding company in the sale of a food premix and ingredient supplier to a global food and ingredient supplier.
• Represented a lower middle market private equity firm in the recapitalization of a Boston-based coaching and career services company.
• Advised the subsidiary of a B2B publishing group in the sale of its health care informatics business line to an events company.
• Advised a British publishing company in an acquisition by its equipment rental portfolio company of a supplier of street maintenance and snow removal equipment.
• Represented a British publishing company in the sale of its equipment rental portfolio company to a private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies.
• Advised a middle market private equity firm and its portfolio company focused on Medicare reimbursement services in the sale of the portfolio entity to a health care data and analytics company.
• Advised an auto insurance portfolio company held by a private equity fund in its sale to a division of a global insurance brokerage and risk management services firm.
• Represented a health care software company in its sale to a global health care IT company.