Caitlin Lucey represents private equity investors and their portfolio companies as well as public companies across all aspects of executive compensation and other employee benefit matters related to a broad range of deals, including mergers and acquisitions and a variety of capital markets and securities transactions. Caitlin has extensive experience advising on executive retention and motivation as well as on equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives, deferred compensation, retirement plans and employment, retention and severance agreements.
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Work Highlights
- Change Healthcare in its $13.8 billion combination with the Optum business unit of UnitedHealth Group
- IPOs (as issuer’s counsel) of Bumble, Change Healthcare and Grocery Outlet
- Blackstone in its acquisitions of Liftoff, Vungle and a majority stake in MagicLab
- Blackstone in its investments in Advarra, Life Science Logistics and Simpli.fi
- KKR in its acquisition of Barracuda Networks, sale of Epicor Software and $1 billion commitment to form Global Technical Realty
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its $3 billion recapitalization of Cologix, Inc.
Education
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Cornell Law School, 2015 J.D.
magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Fraser Prize Recipient; Executive Editor, Cornell Law Review; Honors Teaching Fellow
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Cornell University, 2009 B.A.
With distinction; Phi Beta Kappa
A Partner in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice, Caitlin Lucey represents clients across all aspects of executive compensation and other employee benefit matters related to mergers and acquisitions and a variety of capital markets and securities transactions. She has extensive experience advising on executive retention and motivation as well as on equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives, deferred compensation, retirement plans and employment, retention and severance agreements. Caitlin represents private equity investors and their portfolio companies as well as public companies across a wide range of industries including healthcare, technology, infrastructure and business and professional services.
Caitlin’s recent transactions have included advising on compensation and benefits matters for:
- Change Healthcare in its $13.8 billion combination with the Optum business unit of UnitedHealth Group
- IPOs (as issuer’s counsel) of Bumble, Change Healthcare and Grocery Outlet
- Blackstone in its acquisitions of Liftoff, Vungle and a majority stake in MagicLab
- Blackstone in its investments in Advarra, Life Science Logistics and Simpli.fi
- KKR in its acquisition of Barracuda Networks, sale of Epicor Software and $1 billion commitment to form Global Technical Realty
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its $3 billion recapitalization of Cologix, Inc.
- Versum Materials in its $6.5 billion sale to Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- Vungle in its acquisitions of JetFuel and GameRefinery
- Harsco in its acquisition of Clean Earth and sale of its Industrial Air-X-Changer business
Caitlin received her J.D., magna cum laude from Cornell Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the Executive Editor of the Cornell Law Review. She received her B.A., with distinction, from Cornell University. She is admitted to practice in New York.