Charles Shi
Advises clients on matters involving compensation and benefits, including ERISA’s fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules.
Charles advises clients on matters involving compensation and benefits, both in the course of clients’ day-to-day business dealings and in connection with mergers and acquisitions, and on ERISA’s fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules.
His compensation and benefits practice includes designing and implementing equity compensation programs, negotiating executive employment arrangements and structuring qualified plans and non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements.
His ERISA practice includes advising financial institutions on their service and product offerings to retirement investors and advising private funds on accepting investments from benefit plan investors.
Additionally, Charles counsels public and pre-IPO companies, as well as their boards and compensation committees, on section 16 matters and compensation-related governance and disclosure matters.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Meritage Homes $575 million convertible notes offering
- Hubbard Radio amendment to credit facility
- Lightyear GP-led secondary transaction and formation of continuation fund
- Nuveen $1.25 billion senior notes offering
- Narragansett Electric $500 million senior notes offering
- Trial Holdings ¥44.6 billion IPO
- Rubicon closes approximately $1.18B fundraise for second flagship PE fund
- SMFG $1 billion perpetual subordinated notes offering
- SEB $1.75 billion notes offering
- Cigna $4.5 billion senior notes offering
- Telefónica $500 million tender offer
- Sumitomo Life Insurance $1.04 billion perpetual subordinated notes offering
- Asahi Group Holdings ¥177 billion secondary offering
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank $1.5 billion senior notes offering
- JPMorgan Chase medium-term note program
- JFE Holdings ¥119.5 billion stock offering
Insights
Education
- cum laude
- Articles Editor, Georgetown Law Journal
- cum laude
- Tau Beta Pi
Professional history
- Davis Polk since 2009
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York