Ropes & Gray LLP continues to lead in executive compensation and employee benefits, advising on high-profile M&A, private equity transactions, IPOs, and restructurings. The team is a trusted advisor to major private equity sponsors, asset managers, and Fortune 500 companies, providing seamless integration with the firm’s tax, corporate, and finance practices. The firm recently advised National Financial Partners on compensation and benefits aspects of its $13.4bn sale to Aon, showcasing its expertise in cross-border executive compensation and benefits structures. Additionally, the team advised ImmunoGen on its $10.1bn acquisition by AbbVie, highlighting its deep experience in structuring equity-based incentive plans and senior executive arrangements in the life sciences sector. Key figures in the team include Renata Ferrari , based in Boston, a go-to adviser on complex public company executive compensation issues, and Allie Alperovich , based in New York, who frequently counsels private equity firms on equity-based awards and ERISA matters. Also based in Boston, Jennifer Rikoski Whitney is also highly regarded for her work with asset managers and pension funds on regulatory and compliance matters.
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Work Department
Tax & Benefits; Executive Compensation
Position
Partner
Career
Renata Ferrari is a partner in our tax & benefits department in Boston and the head of the firm's executive compensation practice group. She advises clients on executive compensation, equity-based and other incentives, deferred compensation, severance plans and other compensatory and benefits arrangements.
Renata also advises on the application of securities and tax laws to executives and employers and corporate governance matters. Her practice also includes a focus on compensation and benefits-related issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
Education
- JD, Harvard Law School, 1998; cum laude
- AB, Harvard College, 1994; cum laude
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Key clients
- TPG Capital N 2 Advent International N 3 Bain Capital N 4 Vertex Pharmaceuticals N TSG Consumer Partners The TJX Companies New York University Berkshire Partners Silver Lake Partners Ginkgo Bioworks Genstar Capital Paratek Pharmaceuticals American Industrial Partners Invesco Ltd. iCapital Network Pacific Investment Management Company New Mountain Capital BV Investment Partners HarbourVest Partners
Work highlights
Advised National Financial Partners (NFP), a provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services and a Madison Dearborn Partners portfolio company, in its $13.4 billion sale to Aon (NYSE: AON), a global professional services firm.
Represented ImmunoGen on executive compensation and benefits matters in its $10.1 billion sale to AbbVie, which will acquire ImmunoGen, and its flagship cancer therapy ELAHERE.
Represented National Amusements in the headline-grabbing proposed sale of control of Paramount Global to affiliates of Skydance Media in connection with a broader transaction in which Paramount Global and Skydance Media propose to merge, forming “New Paramount.”