A counsel in the Executive Compensation Group, Annie Anderson advises public and private companies and private equity sponsors as outside compensation counsel, including with respect to applicable tax, federal securities and exchange listing considerations and executive compensation disclosure requirements. Annie represents individual executives and management teams on significant compensation matters.
Annie’s experience includes:
- Acerinox in its $970 million acquisition of Haynes International
- AmTrust Financial Services in its strategic partnership with Blackstone Credit & Insurance, under which AmTrust will spin-off certain of its managing general agencies and fee businesses in the U.S., United Kingdom, and continental Europe to form a new, independent company
- Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in their:
- structured equity investment in Intermodal Tank Transport
- $8.1 billion take-private acquisition of Univar Solutions
- Biofourmis Holdings in the sale of Biofourmis Connect to ActiGraph
- Crown Castle in its successful proxy fight against Boots Capital
- Dana Incorporated in its approximately $2.7 billion sale of its Off-Highway business to Allison Transmission Holdings
- General Atlantic and its portfolio company in Biofourmis’ strategic merger with CopilotIQ
- GSK in its up-to-$50 million acquisition of Elsie Biotechnologies
- Hall Capital Partners, a registered investment advisor with over $45 billion in assets under management specializing in high-net-worth individuals and family offices, in its sale to Pathstone
- Hawaiian Electric Industries and its subsidiary Pacific Current on the sale of Pacific Current’s 60-megawatt Hamakua Energy Plant on Hawai’i Island to a subsidiary of Harbert Management Corporation
- H.I.G. Growth Partners in its growth equity investment in Carebox
- KPS Capital Partners in its acquisition of:
- Catalyst Acoustics Group from The Stephens Group
- the Engineered Materials business from Crane Company
- Metsera in its proposed $10 billion sale to Pfizer, following a series of competing bids for the company by Pfizer and Novo Nordisk
- Mizuho Financial Group in its $550 million acquisition of Greenhill & Co.
- Roark Capital Group:
- in its acquisition of Dave’s Hot Chicken
- in its acquisition of Subway
- portfolio company Youth Enrichment Brands in its acquisition of School of Rock
- ServiceNow in its acquisition of data.world
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Boundary Street Capital
- WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa