Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's practice structures, negotiates, and implements compensation and benefits aspects of mergers, spin-offs, carve-outs, IPOs, and across-border acquisitions, while managing ERISA, tax, securities, and fiduciary matters. Austin and New York-based Jessica Lutrin and New York-based Nora Burke jointly lead the practice, with Lutrin assisting both public and private, domestic and international, clients across sectors on compensation and benefits issues arising in corporate transactions. In Los Angeles, Mark Jones is a key contact for compensation and equity matters for public companies.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Key clients
- Spin Master
- HealthQuest Capital
- The Raine Group
- Horizon Infusions
- Lumenci, Inc.
- ACON Investments
- Integral Federal
- Verance Capital
- Harmonia Holdings
- Qualer, Inc.
- Ventura Foods
- EMCORE
- Kiteworks
- Clearwater Paper Corporation
- TD SYNNEX
- Fortune 50 Energy Company
- IQVIA
- Momentus Capital
- SiteOwl
Work highlights
Advised the Delaware Attorney General on executive compensation, governance and nonprofit-oversight matters in OpenAI’s landmark restructuring from a nonprofit to a public-benefit corporation.
Advised Clearwater Paper Corporation on executive-compensation and benefits integration in connection with its $1.06 billion sale of its tissue business to Sofidel America Corporation, including post-closing workforce harmonization and plan governance.
Advised Ventura Foods on its acquisition of DYMA Brands, leading all executive-compensation and benefits diligence, multi-employer-plan risk assessment and integration of benefit arrangements; recognized as the U.S. Mid-Market Deal of the Year.
Practice head
Jessica Lutrin; Nora Burke
Other key lawyers
Mark Jones