Harry Hudesman is Counsel in the Palo Alto office, and a member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Harry focuses his practice on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in the context of a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and initial public offerings, among others. He regularly advises public and private companies on a broad range of employment, compensatory and benefit matters including the design, negotiation and implementation of employment and separation arrangements, cash-based and equity-based incentive plans, golden parachute excise tax issues, and related employment matters.
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Work Highlights
- Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate in its $3.6 billion acquisition of Bluerock Residential Growth REIT
- KKR in its acquisition of Neighborly
- Stone Point Capital in its acquisition of Ascensus
- Apollo in its $5 billion acquisition of The Michaels Companies
- Blackstone in its $5 billion acquisition of Chamberlain Group
- EQT in the majority investment by EQT Private Equity in Storable, Inc.
- Riverwood Capital in its significant growth investment in HG Insights, Inc.
- BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure team in its take private of GasLog Ltd.
Education
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The George Washington University Law School, 2013 J.D.
Thurgood Marshall Scholar
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University of Massachusetts, 2010 B.A.
Member of Commonwealth Honors College; summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
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New York 2014
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California 2023
Harry Hudesman is Counsel in the Palo Alto office, and a member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Harry focuses his practice on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in the context of a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and initial public offerings, among others. He regularly advises public and private companies on a broad range of employment, compensatory and benefit matters including the design, negotiation and implementation of employment and separation arrangements, cash-based and equity-based incentive plans, golden parachute excise tax issues, and related employment matters.
Harry received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where he was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar. He received his B.A., summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was a member of Commonwealth Honors College and Phi Beta Kappa.