Supporting both unionized and non-union employers, Greenberg Traurig focuses on helping clients foster constructive employee relations while reducing the exposure, expense, and disruption associated with litigation. The group is jointly headed by Atlanta-based John Richards, Naomi Beer in Denver, and San Francisco partner Ronald Holland. Beer is regularly engaged in complex disputes, including class actions and multi-district litigation, with particular strength in overseeing and managing large-scale matters. Holland, meanwhile, advises on a broad range of labor issues, encompassing wage and hour class actions, whistleblower claims, breach of contract disputes, and other high-stakes employment litigation. Also based in San Francisco, Ellen Bronchetti represents employers in wage and hour disputes, trade secret misappropriation cases, and matters involving whistleblowers.
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- 'They did an outstanding job in negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement without drama or acrimony.'
Key clients
- Calpine Energy Solutions
- Clearwater Paper Company
- Sunsweet Growers
- Associate Capital
- SL Green Realty Corp.
- Vornado Realty Trust
Work highlights
Leading negotiations with the IBEW for Calpine Energy Solutions, a Fortune 500 licensed retail energy provider based in Houston, Texas, Calpine’s gas plant O&M collective bargaining agreement in Northern California, with ramifications for the entire West Coast fleet of power plants.
Advised Clearwater Paper Corporation, a premier independent supplier of paperboard packaging products, in an acquisition of a manufacturing facility for $700 million and the sale of its tissue business for $1.06 billion, which involved the acquisition and transfer of over 1,000 employees.
Provided labor and employment representation in connection Vornado Realty Trust’s sale of 3300 Northern Blvd. Queens, NY, NY, 510 West 22nd Street, NY, NY, and the $1.6 billion master lease of 770 Broadway, NY, NY to New York University, deals which involved negotiating agreements with several major unions, and addressing potential multiemployer pension fund liability issues.
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Practice head
John Richards; Naomi Beer; Ronald Holland
Other key lawyers
Ellen Bronchetti
