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Alvin H. Brown is the former Head of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group who, as part of the transitioning of management of the Group to the next generation, continues to practice as a member of that Group. In that capacity, he addresses executive compensation and benefits matters in the context of domestic and international business transactions, but also has represented boards of directors and their special committees in connection with negotiations of arrangements with senior executives. He has provided advice in connection with the investment of pension funds, domestically and abroad, in both private and publicly traded investment vehicles, project financing and capital formation; designing and negotiating executive employment and compensation arrangements, specializing in leveraged buyout transactions. He has also had experience in negotiating with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the U.S. agency responsible for guaranteeing pension plan benefits).
Representative engagements from his more than 30-year career include being responsible for the benefit and compensation issues in representing a consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group in its acquisition of TXU Corp., the largest leveraged buy-out in history, the board of directors of Dow Jones Company in its acquisition by News Corp., CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., in its acquisition of Rinker Group Limited, a management-led consortium (consisting of Sol Kerzner, Istithmar PJSC, Whitehall Street Global Real Estate L.P., Providence and The Related Companies) in its acquisition of Kerzner International Limited consortium, KKR in its structuring and Amsterdam listing of KKR Private Equity Investors, and a consortium of private equity investors including Silver Lake Partners, Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group, KKR, Goldman Sachs and Providence Equity Partners in their acquisition of SunGard. In the past, he negotiated the employee benefit and management incentive arrangements in the landmark acquisition of RJR Nabisco and designed and assisted in the implementation of one of the first global employee stock option plans for Duracell.
Mr. Brown became a partner at Simpson Thacher in 1989. He received his B.A. with honors from Emory University in 1971, where he was a nominee for both a Rhodes Scholarship and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and received his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law in 1974, where he was a Wien Scholar and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Transnational Law. He is a member of the Bar in New York and has served as a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He has been a speaker at professional and private seminars and conferences, including bar association and PLI conferences. He was named in the National Law Journal as among the top 40 benefits lawyers in America and was selected for inclusion by Euromoney Publications as one of the world's leading labor and employment lawyers. More recently, he was included by Corporate Counsel in its Best Lawyers in America (Employee Benefits Law Edition), named by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading lawyer in the field, and included in the New York Times Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers of New York Metropolitan Area, and New York Magazine New York Area Best Lawyers.
Honors/Associations
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The Association of the Bar of the City of New York |
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American Bar Association |
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New York State Bar Association |
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Publications
Admissions
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New York 1975 |
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U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1975 |
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U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit 1975 |
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Education
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Columbia Law School, 1974 J.D.
Lawrence Wien Scholar;
The Journal of Transnational Law, Associate Editor |
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Emory University, 1971 B.A.
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