Ashlie advises clients on a broad array of executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements, particularly with regard to issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, initial public offerings and other transactions. She regularly represents public and private companies, including executives and board members, on a range of compensation-related matters, including on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.
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Work Highlights
- Gardner Denver Holdings in its $15 billion merger with Ingersoll-Rand plc’s Industrial segment
- L3 Technologies in its $33.5 billion merger with Harris Corporation
- EQT in its acquisition of First Student and First Transit
- People’s United Financial in its $7.6 billion merger with M&T Bank Corporation and its acquisition of United Financial Bancorp
- Johnson Controls in its $13.2 billion sale of its Power Solutions business
Education
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George Mason University, 2009 J.D.
summa cum laude
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University of Utah, 2004 B.S. Accounting
summa cum laude; David Eccles School of Business Outstanding Scholar in Accounting
Admissions
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District of Columbia 2013
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Virginia 2009
Ashlie Lawton is Counsel in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Ashlie advises clients on a broad array of executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements, particularly with regard to issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, initial public offerings and other transactions. She regularly represents public and private companies, including executives and board members, on a range of compensation-related matters, including on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.
Ashlie also has experience advising clients on employee benefits matters, including tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit pension plans, profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and health and welfare plans. She has advised clients on day-to-day issues employers face in administering benefit plans, counseled clients on plan disputes and participant claims, and represented clients in governmental audits and compliance filings.
Notable experience includes representing:
- Gardner Denver Holdings in its $15 billion merger with Ingersoll-Rand plc’s Industrial segment
- L3 Technologies in its $33.5 billion merger with Harris Corporation
- EQT in its acquisition of First Student and First Transit
- People’s United Financial in its $7.6 billion merger with M&T Bank Corporation and its acquisition of United Financial Bancorp
- Johnson Controls in its $13.2 billion sale of its Power Solutions business
Ashlie received her J.D., summa cum laude, from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School in 2009. She received her B.S. in Accounting, summa cum laude, from the University of Utah in 2009, where she was the David Eccles School of Business Outstanding Scholar in Accounting. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.