The appointee joins Paul, Weiss from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett after five years with the firm.<\/p>\n
US law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison<\/a> has welcomed executive compensation lawyer Linda Barrett to its New York office as partner, the firm announced yesterday (15 June).<\/p>\n Barrett joins Paul, Weiss after five years at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett<\/a>, her second stint at the firm having also worked there from 2010-2016. Her career to date also includes time spent with Skadden<\/a>, Morrison & Foerster<\/a> and a period as in-house counsel at Franklin Templeton Investments.<\/p>\n With a client base comprising private equity funds and public companies, Barrett\u2019s practice encompasses executive compensation<\/a>, benefits and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)<\/a> matters relating to corporate transactions, designing and implementing compensation and benefit programmes and negotiating on behalf of both companies and individuals on executive employment and separation arrangements.<\/p>\n Barrett\u2019s experience includes advising on asset sales, leveraged buyouts, IPOs, M&As, take-private transactions, sales and spin-offs across the energy, financial services, fintech, media-entertainment, tech and transportation sectors among others.<\/p>\n Co-head of the executive compensation department Jean McLoughlin commented on the appointment: \u201cLinda\u2019s deep experience advising some of the largest private equity firms on compensation and benefits matters will be a tremendous asset to our clients, whose need for sophisticated advice in this area continues to increase. We are excited to welcome Linda to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n McLoughlin\u2019s fellow co-head Matthew Friestedt added: \u201cLinda brings executive compensation expertise that will further strengthen our established practice at Paul, Weiss. We are confident that she will make an immediate and meaningful impact for our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The appointee joins Paul, Weiss from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett after five years with the firm. US law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103620,60729,103621,9,11,10,33528],"class_list":["post-268323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-contributor-news","tag-executive-compensation","tag-linda-barrett","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-paul-weiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}