Practice Areas & Industries: Jones Day

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Lawyers in Jones Day's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice have a wealth of experience advising private equity clients in connection with acquisitions and exits, as well as with day-to-day matters at the portfolio-company level. Jones Day assists in identifying and dealing with the frequently complex compensation and benefits issues that arise in the transactional context. If the issues in question arose in prior periods, the task may be to quantify potential employee benefit costs and risks and determine how those costs and risks will be allocated as a business matter between buyer and seller. More important, in many instances Jones Day can provide helpful and creative advice that will minimize the likelihood of the same issues recurring in future periods, thereby facilitating a later exit transaction. In addition, Jones Day assists buyers with the implementation of employee benefit plans and programs and equity and other management incentive arrangements following the closing of the transactions.

In recent years Jones Day has done extensive compensation and benefits work for some of the most prominent private equity firms in the U.S., including Francisco Partners, Industrial Growth Partners, Kirtland Capital Partners, Morgenthaler, The Riverside Company, Blue Point Capital Partners, Parallel Investment, Sun Capital Partners, and the Wasserstein family trusts. Through this experience, Jones Day has created an efficient and knowledgeable team of executive compensation and employee benefits lawyers who can provide advice in all aspects of private equity fund-raising, portfolio company management, investments, and divestitures.

Contact(s)

Daniel C. Hagen
Cleveland
Tel: 1.216.586.3939