Deidre Kalenderian is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Executive Compensation Group. She advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors, corporate boards and compensation committees, senior management teams, and individual executives on the executive compensation and benefits aspects of day-to-day operations, as well as in connection with public and private company mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, carve-outs, IPOs, restructurings and other corporate transactions.
Kalenderian routinely advises clients on the structuring, negotiation, and implementation of employment, severance, change in control, deferred compensation and equity-based incentive compensation arrangements, as well as the securities, accounting, tax and governance matters related to these arrangements.
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Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Kalenderian’s experience includes:
Private M&A
- Appfire and TA Associates in the $100 million investment in Appfire by TA Associates
- BC Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Madison Logic
- Chantecaille on its acquisition by Beiersdorf
- Clearhaven Partners in its acquisition of TimeTrade Systems
- GeoLinks in its investment from JLC Infrastructure
- Parthenon in the sale of its portfolio company Allworth Financial Group to Lightyear Capital and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
- Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners in the $1 billion investment in Airbnb
- Technology Crossover Ventures in its $1.2 billion sale of its portfolio company ETQ
- Waud Capital Partners in its $2.2 billion sale of its minority stake in GI Alliance to Apollo and GI Alliance’s physician owners
Public M&A
- Alamo in its carveout sale of Pressure Pumping Business to NexTier for $268 million plus earn-out
- Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $13.4 billion divestiture of Celgene’s OTEZLA® program to Amgen, in relation to its $90 billion acquisition of Celgene
- LeanTaaS in its acquisition of Hospital IQ
Restructurings
- Ascena Retail Group and its affiliates in their pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Virginia
- J.C. Penney Company and its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases
- Rite Aid and 119 of its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
- Rock Mountain Capital in the recapitalization of Spark Orthodontics
- WeWork and its debtor affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
Capital Markets
- Diversey Holdings, a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity, in its initial public offering reflecting a valuation of $6.4 billion
- Innovage Holding in its $400 million initial public offering