Leveraging its extensive global network, Linklaters LLP stands out for its advice on cross-border transactions within the financial services, technology, and industrial sectors. Andrew L. Gaines oversees the New York-based practice, offering expertise on the employee benefits and executive compensation dimensions of corporate transactions and bankruptcies, and advising private fund sponsors on ERISA Title I issues. The team was strengthened in September 2023 with the arrival of senior counsel Janet Lee from Goldman Sachs, who brings experience in stock incentives, retirement plans, and transactional due diligence. Senior counsel Craig Spenner assists asset managers, banks, and private equity funds with ERISA’s fiduciary regulations and prohibited transaction rules.

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Key clients

  • Brookfield Asset Management
  • Getir
  • Rothschild & Co. SCA
  • Storm Energia Inc.
  • FD Technologies plc
  • ID Funds Manager LLC
  • Arrival
  • Schaeffler
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • GENFIT SA
  • Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC ETISALAT

Work highlights

  • Advised Brookfield Asset Management on executive compensation and employee benefits in its £4 billion offer for HomeServe plc.
  • Advised the HR and Legal teams of Rothschild on the tax treatment of the tender offer for US employee partners and adjustments to employee awards under the company’s equity plans due to the going private transaction.

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Practice head

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Andrew L. Gaines

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Janet Lee, Craig Spenner