Jeannine McSweeney is a Partner in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Jeannine advises clients on executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements, including equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives, deferred compensation, retirement plans and employment, retention and severance agreements, with particular emphasis on issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and joint ventures.
Jeannine works closely with the Firm’s corporate clients on compensation and benefits matters related to mergers and acquisitions and a variety of capital markets and securities transactions. She has experience representing clients in a wide range of industries including financial services, real estate, energy, industrials and manufacturing, technology and healthcare.
Jeannine’s recent transactions have included advising on compensation and benefits matters during the representation of:
- Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. in its announced $14 billion acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Allen & Overy in its announced merger with Shearman & Sterling
- TD Bank Group in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen Inc. and its proposed $13.4 billion acquisition of First Horizon Corporation
- PPD in its $17.4 billion sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Blackstone in its recapitalization of SERVPRO, its acquisitions of Motel 6, Spanx and Supergoop!, its acquisition and sale of Strategic Hotels & Resorts, and its C$3.8 billion acquisition of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust
- Hellman & Friedman in its recapitalization of Pharmaceutical Product Development, its acquisitions of MultiPlan, ABRA, Applied Systems, The NPD Group and Information Resources, and its investments in PointClickCare Technologies and Sprinklr
- EQT in its acquisitions and sales of Clinical Innovations and Press Ganey and acquisition of First Student and First Transit
- People’s United Financial in numerous transactions, including its $7.6 billion merger with M&T Bank Corporation, its acquisitions of United Financial Bancorp, Inc., LEAF Commercial Capital, Vend Lease Company and First Connecticut Bancorp, and its sale of eight of its branches to Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
- U.S. Bancorp in its acquisition of MUFG Union Bank for $8 billion
- Garda World Security Corporation, Founder, Chairman and CEO Stephan Crétier, and Garda World management in a C$5.2 billion recapitalization through its sale of Rhône Group’s equity interest in Garda World and Garda World’s acquisitions of Tidel, Gunnebo and ARCA
- BorgWarner Inc. in its acquisition of Delphi Technologies
- IPOs (all as issuer’s counsel) of Apria, Gates Global, La Quinta, Medley Capital, Performance Food Group, PPD and TaskUs
- Dover Corporation in the spin-off of its upstream oil and gas business into a new independent publicly traded company called Apergy Corporation
Jeannine is ranked as a leading lawyer for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New York) by Chambers USA, citing clients who say “she is an excellent negotiator, who is thoughtful and practical." Sources also rave that “she can make highly complex concepts easily understandable for the lay person." She has also been recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a “Next Generation Partner” for Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation.
Jeannine received her LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2008, her M.B.A.,
magna cum laude, from Syracuse University Whitman School of Management and her J.D.,
magna cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law, both in 2006, and her B.A.,
magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester in 2003. Jeannine is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.