Erin Murphy
Partner
New York
erin.murphy@lw.com
+1.212.906.1348
PRACTICES
- Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits
- Tax
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- JD, Northwestern University,
- AB, Duke University,
cum laude
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Erin Murphy advises public and private companies, compensation committees, and individual executives on a broad array of compensation and benefits issues in the context of corporate transactions and day-to-day business.
Erin regularly advises a wide variety of clients on the design of compensation plans, including:
- Stock option and other equity incentive plans
- Non-qualified deferred compensation plans
- Other incentive compensation plans
Erin advises clients on executive compensation, employee benefits, and ERISA matters, with a particular focus in corporate transactions, including:
- Strategic mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity funds and public and private targets in takeovers
- Sales and spin-offs
- Initial public offerings
- Formation of private investment funds
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
She regularly works with employers and executives to negotiate, design, and document executive employment, change in control, and severance agreements.
EXPERIENCE
Erin's representative transactions include:
- Lulu’s Fashion Lounge Holdings, a women’s fashion brand, in its US$92 million initial public offering
- Starry, a transformative internet service provider, in its US$1.66 billion business combination with FirstMark Horizon
- Vacasa, a Silver Lake portfolio company, in its acquisition of TurnKey Vacation Rentals
- KKR & Co. L.P. in a strategic transaction to create a new liquid alternatives investment firm by combining Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC and KKR Prisma*
- KSL Capital Partners, LLC in its acquisition of Outrigger Hotels and Resorts*
- KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. in its initial public offering*
- Silver Lake Partners in its strategic investments in Cornerstone OnDemand and Oak View Group*
- Underwriters in Dropbox, Inc.’s initial public offering*
- Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., a KKR portfolio company, it its acquisition of Cunningham Lindsey*
- The EQT VIII fund in its acquisition of Cast & Crew Entertainment Services*
- BorgWarner Inc. in its agreement to acquire Delphi Technologies PLC in an all-stock transaction*
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in connection with its sale of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. to Invesco Ltd.*
- New Mountain Capital in connection with its partnership with New ILC Dover, Inc.*
- Sedgwick, Inc., a KKR portfolio company, in connection with the sale of Sedgwick to funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group, Stone Point Capital LLC, and other investors*
- Sedgwick, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of York Risk Services Group*
- Global Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of NRG Energy, Inc.’s integrated US renewable energy platform, including its interests in NRG Yield, Inc.*
- Hub International Limited and Hellman & Friedman in connection with a minority investment in Hub by Altas Partners*
- ABRA Auto Body & Glass in the combination of ABRA and Caliber Collision*
- Affiliates of Digital Colony Partners and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund in connection with the acquisition of Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.*
- Creditas Financial Solutions, Ltd. in its US$231 million Series D funding round, primarily led by the SoftBank Vision Fund and SoftBank Group Corp.*
- Time Warner Cable in its
- US$78.7 billion merger with Charter Communications Inc.*
- Terminated US$45.2 billion stock-for-stock merger with Comcast Corporation*
- Separation from Time Warner Inc.*
- Joint bid with Comcast Corporation to acquire the assets of Adelphia Communications Corporation*
- Ric Edelman in the sale of Edelman Financial Services, in two separate transactions, to Lee Equity and Hellman & Friedman LLC*
- Blackstone in its minority investments in a leading:
- Multi-strat alternatives firm*
- Long-short hedge fund firm*
- Leading credit opportunities hedge fund firm*
- General Atlantic in its:
- Acquisitions of leading global beauty brand Too Faced Cosmetics *
- Acquisitions and combination of two online brokerage firms, OptionsHouse, LLC and tradeMonster*
- MedExpress, a portfolio company of General Atlantic, in its sale to Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group*
- TPG, Oaktree, and JH Investments in the US$1.2 billion acquisition of Taylor Wimpey’s North American real estate operations*
- Michael Kors Holdings in connection with its initial public offering*
- Caesars Entertainment Corporation in connection with its:
- Chapter 11 cases of its subsidiary Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, Inc. (CEOC) and certain of CEOC’s wholly owned subsidiaries*
- Formation of a new growth-oriented entity, Caesars Growth Partners
- Related US$1.1 billion rights offering*
Representative investment fund representations include:
- Clearlake Capital*
- Apollo*
- Blackstone/GSO*
- Harvest Partners*
- KKR*
- Oaktree*
- Oak Hill Advisors*
- Trilantic Capital Partners*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham