Harry N. Hudesman

Harry Hudesman is a Partner in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Based in the Palo Alto office, he focuses his practice on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in the context of a wide range of transactions, including high-profile 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. His clients span several industries including technology, healthcare, energy and industrials and manufacturing.

Harry’s recent transactions have included advising on compensation and benefits matters for:

• Sixth Street-led consortiums in the acquisition of GreenSky and SPS
• KSL Capital Partners in several matters, including its $800 million investment in Flexjet, its $1.4 billion acquisition of Hersha Hospitality Trust, as well as a range of executive compensation advisory matters
• Apollo in several transactions, including in its strategic investment in PetSmart, its sale of The Fresh Market to Cencosud and its $5 billion acquisition of The Michaels Companies
• KKR in its acquisitions of Teaching Strategies and Neighborly
• Centerbridge in the $868 million acquisition of INDUS Realty Trust
• Brookfield in multiple transactions, including its $1.34 billion acquisition of Antylia Scientific and its $1.7 billion acquisition of the Thermal Management business of nVent Electric
• Angeles Equity Partners in several transactions, including the acquisition of O’Hara’s Son Roofing, Custom Goods, Data Clean, RōBEX,Mid-State Engineering, OBS Holdings (d/b/a Freymiller) and Agile Occupational Medicine
• Silver Lake in numerous transactions, including its $1 billion investment in Unity Software and $2 billion investment in the business combination between IonQ and dMY III, among others
• Metaphysic in its $1.43 billion acquisition by DNEG’s Brahma AI
• CBRE in several transactions, including the acquisition of Industrious National Management Company, J&J Worldwide Services and the Full Spectrum Group 
• Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate in the $3.6 billion acquisition of Bluerock Residential Growth REIT
• Blackstone in its $5 billion acquisition of Chamberlain Group
• BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure team in its take private of GasLog Ltd.
• EQT in the majority investment by EQT Private Equity in Storable, Inc.

Harry received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where he was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar and a member of the Moot Court Board. He received his B.S., summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was a Luther Allen Scholar and a member of Commonwealth Honors College and Phi Beta Kappa.