A partner in the Paul, Weiss Executive Compensation Group, Linda Barrett advises clients on the full range of compensation, benefits and ERISA matters arising in complex transactions and day-to-day corporate matters. Barrett has extensive experience counseling private equity funds and public companies on executive compensation issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take-privates, spin-offs and initial public offerings. She also designs and implements employee compensation and benefit programs, including negotiating executive employment and separation arrangements on behalf of both companies and executives. Her work spans a broad range of industries, including technology, financial institutions, fintech, energy, media and entertainment, business services and transportation.
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Barrett’s representative experience includes:
- Centerbridge in its strategic investment, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, in Carr, Riggs & Ingram
- KKR in its joint venture with T-Mobile to acquire Metronet and its acquisition of Broadcom’s end-user computing division
- Stonepeak in its $7.4 billion Textainer acquisition and its $6.2 billion acquisition of Teekay LNG
- Citrin Cooperman Advisors in its acquisition of the non-attest business of Berdon LLP
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Preferred Apartment Communities
- Dell in its acquisition of EMC
- J.P. Morgan Securities in a secondary offering of common shares by Lions Gate Entertainment (n/k/a Starz Entertainment)
- Initial purchasers in a $500 million senior notes offering by VeriSign
- Silver Lake Partners in its $250 million investment in Red Ventures
- Alibaba in its initial public offering
- Yahoo in its $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr