Experience
Our clients benefit from our diverse experience and recognized skill in employment matters. Notable successes across the spectrum of our employment practice include:
- Secured complete dismissal with prejudice of putative class action in Delaware bankruptcy court alleging unpaid overtime at transportation industry portfolio company, on behalf of prominent private equity fund.
- Defended a private equity sponsor against class action joint-employer liability claims relating to alleged WARN Act violations at medical testing portfolio company.
- Successfully defended a healthcare system in an arbitration involving non-compete covenants. Two physicians threatened to leave their employment to found a practice in the same small community, affiliating themselves with one of the healthcare system’s largest competitors, in violation of a non-compete covenant in the physicians’ employment agreements with the healthcare system.
- Representing a leading private equity firm, together with its Executive Chairmen, President & CEO, and affiliated entities, in a confidential arbitration brought by a former managing director, who seeks $90 million+ in damages in connection with his termination from the company. The arbitration brings a wide range of claims, including federal and state securities fraud; common law claims sounding in fraud, contract, and quasi-contract; and a declaratory judgment claim seeking to invalidate the contractual provision requiring the former MD to sign a separation agreement to retain his Fund carried interest.
- Advised Golden Gate Capital as part of a deal team in the acquisition of Bob Evans Restaurants, the operator of family restaurants in 18 states, primarily in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States.
- Counselled Bain Capital as part of a deal team in the strategic investment in Navicure, a provider of cloud-based claims management and patient payment solutions for physician practices and hospitals.
- Represented TPG as part of a deal team in the acquisition of a majority stake in Cirque du Soleil, the world-renowned live artistic entertainment producer.