McGuireWoods LLP manages employee-related aspects in business acquisitions and dispositions, including the termination, integration, and spin-off of benefit plans. Gerald Thomas leads the firm’s wider tax and employee benefits department from Atlanta, while Charlotte-based Taylor Wedge French co-chairs the employee benefits and executive compensation division, advising clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services, and industrial sectors on stock and asset purchases. In Richmond, Robert Cipolla assists clients with the integration of employee benefit plans post-corporate transactions, while Robert Wynne offers expertise in both equity and non-equity-based incentive schemes. Carolyn Trenda, operating from Chicago, supports clients in restructuring retiree medical programs and consolidating employee benefit plans. In Charlotte, Allison Tanner offers her experience in navigating ERISA and Internal Revenue Code issues.
Key clients
- Dominion Energy Services, Inc.
- L3 Harris Technologies, Inc.
- Perspecta, Inc.
- Direct Energy (Centrica US Holdings, Inc.) – NRG Energy
- Latticework Capital Management, LLC
- Trinity Private Equity Group
- eLearning Brothers, LLC
- Navient Solutions, LLC
- Rising Point Capital
- Carolina Foods, Inc.
- ExlService Holdings, Inc.
Work highlights
- Represented Latticework Capital Management, LLC, a Texas-based private equity firm, in its acquisition of Catalina Research Institute, a premier independent clinical trials center.
- Advised Trinity Private Equity Group on a $38 million investment in eLearning Brothers, LLC and on the subsequent acquisitions of Trivantis and Edulence.
- Represented Cimarron Healthcare Capital, a Salt Lake City-based private equity firm, in its acquisitions of Forward Healthcare and Frontpoint Health.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Gerald Thomas, Tayler Wedge French