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Andrea K. Wahlquist is a Partner in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group, specializing in executive compensation and benefits matters, with an emphasis in representing acquirers and target companies in leveraged buyout transactions and strategic mergers. Ms. Wahlquist regularly counsels private and public companies on the design and implementation, and treatment in corporate transactions, of executive and employee compensation and benefit programs, and on the negotiation of executive employment and separation arrangements. Ms. Wahlquist also has extensive experience in advising clients on a broad range of executive compensation-related issues in initial public offerings and in ongoing public and private company operations, and on compensation and benefits issues unique to bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.
Ms. Wahlquist has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in The Legal 500 and in Chambers and Partners, and was also named in The American Lawyer’s 2007 “Dealmakers of the Year” list as part of the Firm’s team of lawyers honored for its work on a variety of transactions for KKR.
Representational clients and transactions include:
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in its acquisitions of Del Monte Foods Company, Academy Sports & Outdoors, First Data Corp., HCA, Inc., U.S. Foodservice, Inc., Cleanaway and Brambles Industrial Services (Australia) and MMI Holdings Limited (Singapore), and a consortium comprised of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Silver Lake Partners and TCV in a strategic investment and partnership with The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
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Petrohawk Energy Corporation in its $15 billion sale to BHP Billiton, Sealed Air Corporation in its $4.3 billion acquisition of Diversey Holdings, and Wyeth in its merger with Pfizer
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The Charles Schwab Corporation in its acquisition of optionsXpress Holdings, TD Bank Financial Group in its acquisitions of Chrysler Financial, The South Financial Group and Commerce Bancorp, and People’s United Financial in its acquisitions of Financial Federal Corporation, LSB Corporation and Smithtown Bancorp, Inc.
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An investor group comprised of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Warburg Pincus and Centerbridge Partners in their $1 billion investment in Santandar Consumer USA Inc., The Carlyle Group and Oak Hill Capital Partners in their separate investments in FNB United Corp., and Corsair Capital in its investment in United Community Banks, Inc.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., The Nielsen Company, HCA, Inc. and Dollar General Corporation in their respective NYSE listings, and ongoing operations
Ms. Wahlquist has practiced as an executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer since 1997, when she first joined Simpson Thacher. Prior to her association with Simpson Thacher, Ms. Wahlquist clerked for two years for the Honorable Stephen J. Swift of the United States Tax Court.
Ms. Wahlquist received her B.A. in 1992 from the University of Virginia and her J.D. in 1995 from the Washington & Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law Digest, a publication of the Virginia State Bar Association.
Honors/Associations
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American Bar Association |
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Publications
Speaking Engagements
Admissions
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New York 2000 |
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Virginia 1995 |
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Clerkships
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Hon. Stephen J. Swift, United States Tax Court, Washington, D.C. (1995-1997) |
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Education
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Washington and Lee University School of Law, 1995 J.D. Environmental Law Digest, Editor-in-Chief, 1994-1995 |
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University of Virginia, 1992 B.A. |
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