Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP assists private and public companies, private equity, hedge and other investment funds, and plan sponsors on wide range of complex executive compensation and employee benefits matters, such as creating, negotiating, and modifying executive incentives and change-of-control arrangements, and addressing issues that arise in connection with the assumption of, or the failure to assume, benefit plans and other employee obligations. New York-based Jean McLoughlin and Lawrence Witdorchic co-head the practice, with McLoughlin focusing on the negotiation of employment incentives and compensation, including management equity arrangements and the related tax and securities implications, and Witdorchic managing executive compensation and employee benefits features of mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, dispositions, and IPOs. New-York based Andrea Wahlquist Brown is a key contact for the representation of public companies in strategic mergers and spin-offs, as well as in initial public offerings. Jarrett Hoffman has left the firm.