Regina L. Readling is a Partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Department. She advises public and private companies, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives on a wide range of executive compensation, employee benefits, tax, securities law, disclosure and corporate governance matters.
Readling has extensive experience advising on the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings and other strategic transactions. Her work includes counseling on compensation design, negotiation and implementation in connection with transformational deals, as well as ongoing advisory matters.
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Representative Matters
The following matters were handled prior to joining Wachtell Lipton:
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
- AbbVie in its withdrawn $55 billion acquisition of Shire
- Agilent Technologies in $950 Million Acquisition of Biocare Medical
- Kite Pharma in its $11.9 billion acquisition by Gilead Sciences
Energy
- Arlington Industries in its pending acquisition by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners
- Enbridge in its $28 billion acquisition of Spectra Energy
Banking
- First Horizon Corporation in its $13.4 billion proposed acquisition by TD Bank Group, later terminated
- Goldman Sachs Bank in its acquisition of Clarity Money and acquisition of GE Capital Bank’s online deposit platform and assumption of its online deposits
Finance and Payment Technology
- American Express in its acquisition of substantially all of Kabbage
- Fiserv in its $22 billion acquisition of First Data Corporation
- The Goldman Sachs Group in its €1.7 billion acquisition of NN Investment Partners from NN Group
- KCG Holdings in its $1.4 billion acquisition by Virtu Financial
Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Industrials
- Canadian Pacific Railway in its $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern
- Merck KGaA in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Versum Materials
Technology
- Julia Hartz, co-founder, chief executive officer, and executive chair of Eventbrite in its $500 million acquisition by Bending Spoons
- The Priceline Group in its $2.6 billion acquisition of OpenTable
Retail, Food and Leisure
- Amazon.com in its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market
- Gildan in its $4.4 billion acquisition of HanesBrands
- The Home Depot in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution
- The Kroger Company in its terminated $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies
- Sotheby’s in its $3.7 billion sale to BidFair