Paul Hastings Boosts Premier Executive Compensation Practice with Chicago Partner

CHICAGO – Further enhancing its Chambers Band 1-ranked global compensation, benefits, and ERISA practice, Paul Hastings LLP announced today that executive compensation lawyer Deidre Kalenderian has joined the firm as a partner in Chicago.

Kalenderian counsels companies, private equity firms, and portfolio companies on diverse employment, executive compensation, ERISA litigation, and employee benefit matters relating to corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, sales, IPOs, private equity investments, and restructurings. She also advises clients on negotiating executive employment, retention and severance, institutional investment and fiduciary responsibility, reductions in force, and change-in-control agreements, as well as the equity compensation, tax, securities, and corporate governance aspects of compensation agreements. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

“We continue to invest in top talent across tax, executive compensation, and other specialist areas that is necessary to support the increasing demand in our transactional practices,” said firm Chair Frank Lopez. “Deidre’s arrival will enhance our efforts in creating a premier executive compensation practice as we continue to build our global platform and gain market share at the top of the market.”

Kalendarian’s practice is highly synergistic with Paul Hastings’ existing client base. She has advised AbbVie Inc, Apax Partners, Bain Capital, Carlyle, GTCR, Madison Dearborn Partners, Nautic Partners, and Thoma Bravo, as well as other leading enterprise clients like Audax Group, BC Partners, MSD Partners, Rite Aid, Stone Point Capital, Summit Partners, and Sycamore Partners.

As the demand for sophisticated knowledge of matters related to compensation, benefits, tax, institutional investment, and fiduciary responsibility, reductions in force, and ERISA litigation continues to grow, Paul Hastings has added top talent across these practice areas. Kalenderian is the second recent addition following Jason Ertel, who joined two months ago as a partner in New York.

“The demand for practical solutions in my arena continues to grow as corporate transactions become increasingly complex,” said Kalenderian. “I look forward to working with lawyers across the firm’s highly sophisticated corporate practice areas to provide exceptional service for the firm’s clients.”

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