A partner in the 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. Linda 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.
Linda’s representative experience includes:
- Centerbridge in its strategic investment, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, in Carr, Riggs & Ingram
- New Mountain Capital in its strategic investment in the non-attest business of Grant Thornton Advisors and in the subsequent announced combination of Grant Thornton Advisors with Grant Thornton Ireland’s advisory and tax businesses
- 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
- Affiliates of DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in the acquisition of Switch
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Preferred Apartment Communities
- Transunion in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Neustar
- Dell in its acquisition of EMC
- KeyCorp in its $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara
- 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
- Alegeus Technologies in the sale of its Payment and Communication Solutions business
- Alibaba in its initial public offering
- Yahoo in its $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr
