Mr Andrew O’Brien > Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Offices

200 LIBERTY STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10281
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Andrew O’Brien

Work Department
Corporate
Position
Andrew J. O’Brien is a partner in Cadwalader’s Corporate group. Andrew focuses his practice on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, with an emphasis on strategic mergers and acquisitions, complex leveraged buyouts and other significant business transactions. He regularly advises public and private companies, management teams and individual senior executives on executive employment and separation arrangements, and on the design and implementation of cash and equity incentive compensation agreements and non-qualified retirement programs.
Education
J.D., New York Law School
B.A., Georgetown University
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP handles pension plan investments, structuring innovative investment vehicles, and regulatory ERISA matters. The firm represents financial services firms, hedge funds, private equity sponsors, and corporate boards, advising on compliance and transactional issues. James Frazier specialises in ERISA fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions, representing clients in complex regulatory matters and before the Department of Labor. Andrew O’Brien focuses on M&A, leveraged buyouts, and executive compensation, advising public and private companies, management teams, and senior executives on employment and separation agreements, incentive compensation structures, and non-qualified retirement programs. All lawyers mentioned are in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism