Linda Barrett advises private equity funds, public companies and other clients on a broad array of executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take-privates, sales, spin-offs, IPOs and other deals. Linda’s clients include KKR, New Mountain Capital, Stonepeak, Centerbridge, DigitalBridge and JPMorgan, among others. She also designs and implements employee compensation and benefit programs, including the negotiation of executive employment and separation arrangements for both companies and executives.
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Work Highlights
- Acquisition of Switch by affiliates of DigitalBridge and IFM Investors
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust’s $5.8 billion acquisition of Preferred Apartment Communities
- KKR’s joint venture with T-Mobile to acquire Metronet and its acquisition of Broadcom’s end-user computing division
- New Mountain Capital in its strategic investment in Grant Thornton Advisors LLC and in the subsequent announced combination of Grant Thornton Advisors with Grant Thornton Ireland’s advisory and tax businesses
- Centerbridge in its strategic investment, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, in Carr, Riggs & Ingram
- Stonepeak’s $7.4 billion Textainer acquisition and its $6.2 billion acquisition of Teekay LNG
- Transunion’s $3.1 billion acquisition of Neustar
- Dell’s acquisition of EMC
- Alibaba's initial public offering
- KeyCorp’s $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara
- Yahoo’s $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr
Education
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Rutgers School of Law, J.D.
Editor, Rutgers Law Review
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Hofstra University, B.A.
Admissions
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California 2005
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New York 2003
A Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice, Linda Barrett focuses on executive compensation, employee benefits and ERISA matters. She has extensive experience advising a wide variety of clients, including private equity funds and publicly held corporations, with respect to the executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in complex transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take-privates, sales, spin-offs, initial public offerings and other deals. She also designs and implements employee compensation and benefit programs, including the negotiation of executive employment and separation arrangements for both companies and executives.
Her work spans numerous sectors, including technology, financial institutions, fintech, energy, media and entertainment, business services and transportation, among others.
Select representations include advising on:
- Acquisition of Switch by affiliates of DigitalBridge and IFM Investors
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust’s $5.8 billion acquisition of Preferred Apartment Communities
- KKR’s joint venture with T-Mobile to acquire Metronet and its acquisition of Broadcom’s end-user computing division
- New Mountain Capital in its strategic investment in the non-attest business of Grant Thornton Advisors LLC and in the subsequent announced combination of Grant Thornton Advisors with Grant Thornton Ireland’s advisory and tax businesses
- Centerbridge in its strategic investment, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, in Carr, Riggs & Ingram
- Stonepeak’s $7.4 billion Textainer acquisition and its $6.2 billion acquisition of Teekay LNG
- Transunion’s $3.1 billion acquisition of Neustar
- Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC in its acquisition of the non-attest business of Berdon LLP
- Silver Lake Partners’ $250 million investment in Red Ventures
- Dell’s acquisition of EMC
- Alibaba's initial public offering
- Alegeus Technologies’ sale of its Payment and Communication Solutions business
- Initial purchasers in a $500 million senior notes offering by VeriSign
- J.P. Morgan Securities in a secondary offering of common shares by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
- KeyCorp’s $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara
- Yahoo’s $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr
Linda received her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law, where she was Editor of Rutgers Law Review. She received her B.A. from Hofstra University.