Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP continues to advise large multinational corporations and their boards of directors, as well as private equity sponsors and their public and private portfolio companies, on a wide range of compensation and employee benefits matters, with particular focus on compensation and benefits aspects of strategic acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, as well as fund formations, IPOs and other financing transactions, and bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings. Practice head Paul Wessel concentrates on employee benefits and executive compensation issues arising in M&A and financial restructurings, while also providing counsel on ERISA matters, pension investments, and fiduciary responsibilities. He is supported by Jennifer Haydel Britz, who advises clients on the implementation and management of severance arrangements, change-in-control agreements, and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, and Amanda Rotkel, who brings expertise in complex equity-based compensation programs for public companies, domestic and international private equity sponsors, and their portfolio companies. All noted individuals are based in New York.