Navigating the complexities of managing workforce relationships and employee benefit plans, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP represents public and private companies, hedge funds, boards of directors, and individual executives on a wide range of issues affecting compensation and benefits matters, with focus on managing financial services' regulatory and transactional ERISA matters. James Frazier and Andrew O’Brien jointly lead the practice from the firm's New York office. Frazier counsels clients on the application of ERISA's fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions aspects of transactional and regulatory matters, while O'Brien manages executive compensation and employee benefits in connection to strategic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other business transactions.
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‘Jamie Frazier's familiarity with the firm, business, and obviously ERISA. He remains vital with respect to his views on market and competitor positions on novel legal issues or proposed approaches.'
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James Frazier; Andrew O’Brien