Gillian Emmett Moldowan

Overview

Gillian Emmett Moldowan is a partner in the Compensation, Governance & ERISA practice.

She advises companies, boards of directors, executives and investors on compensation and benefit matters, including equity-based incentives, deferred compensation programs and employment, retention and severance arrangements. Her practice focuses in particular on issues that arise at the intersection of human capital management and corporate governance and in securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions transactions. She regularly counsels clients on disclosure, trading rules (including Section 16) and the negotiation of executive employment arrangements. Gillian also advises on the applicability of federal securities law, tax law and general employment-related legal issues.

Experience

Regularly provides executive compensation, disclosure and governance advice to corporate and financial institution clients, including Advantage Solutions, Altice USA, Alexanders, American Axle & Manufacturing, Bank of America, Boston Scientific, Constellium, Deere, Fairfax Financial, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Guggenheim Partners, IMAX, JPMorgan, Kestra, Liberty Global, Mubadala, New York State Deferred Compensation Plan Board, Quest Laboratories, The Chefs’ Warehouse, The Rohatyn Group and Valvoline
Regularly advises individual executives of public companies and private enterprises on employment, retention and severance issues, including having provided advice to CEOs and other executives in the media, consumer products, retail, financial services, healthcare and not-for-profit industries
Regularly provides pro bono services to organizations and individuals on a variety of matters, including providing advice to the Legal Aid Society, Sanctuary for Families and various not for profit arts organization

Public Company

Altice USA in its agreement to sell 49.99 percent of its LightPath fiber enterprise business to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners for an implied enterprise value of $3.2 billion and in its pending $310 million acquisition of the assets of Morris Broadband
Ardagh Group S.A. in connection with the combination of its Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business with Element Holdings II L.P., an entity controlled by The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, to form Trivium Packaging
Ardagh Glass Packaging Inc. in connection with its acquisition of a glass bottle manufacturing facility located in Houston, Texas from Longhorn Glass Manufacturing, L.P., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. in its acquisition by Waste Management, Inc.
Ecopetrol on its joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corporation to develop 97,000 net acres in the Permian Basin in west Texas
General Electric in its combination of GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes and subsequent transactions with Baker Hughes
Altice USA in its initial public offering and subsequent separation from Altice N.V.
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings in its acquisition of NYSE-listed automotive components manufacturer Metaldyne Performance Group Inc.
Citi in its divestiture of foreign banking assets
Uzabase, Inc. in its acquisition of Quartz Media LLC from Atlantic Media, Inc
Valvoline Inc., as borrower, on a $1.05 billion financing consisting of a five-year $575 million term loan A facility and a five-year $475 million revolving credit facility, including a $100 million letter of credit facility
Bank of America Securities as underwriters of Homology Medicines, Inc.’s follow-on public equity offering of common stock
Genmab A/S in connection with its initial public offering and listing of ADSs on the Nasdaq
Cisco Systems Inc. in its acquisition of Singularity Networks

Private Capital

Bluespring Wealth Partners, LLC, a subsidiary of Kestra Financial, Inc. in its acquisition of U.S. Financial Services, L.L.C.
Oryx Midstream in its agreement to acquire Targa Resources Corp.’s Permian Delaware crude business in a deal valued at approximately $135 million
Prairie Farms in connection with its acquisition of certain assets of Dean Foods under a bankruptcy court approved sale procedure
Stone Point Capital LLC in its sale of Hodges-Mace, LLC to Alight Solutions
The Praetorian Group in its acquisition by Lexipol, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company
Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited in its sale of a 6.3% stake in Virtu Financial, Inc
Wafra Inc. in connection with its launch of Global Container International Holdings LLC
Capital Square Partners and Aegis in the sale of Aegis to StarTek, Inc.