Amanda Hines Gold
Focuses on the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of public and private company M&A transactions, IPOs and other complex corporate transactions.
Amanda focuses on the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of public and private company M&A transactions, IPOs and other complex corporate transactions. She has extensive experience in designing and implementing equity and other incentive compensation arrangements for companies at all stages of maturity, including deep experience with technology companies.
She also designs, drafts and negotiates severance, change in control and executive employment agreements, and she prepares related disclosures for securities filings.
Amanda is recognized as a leading executive compensation and benefits lawyer by publications including Chambers USA and Legal 500 U.S. Sources quoted by Chambers say she is “commercial and smart” and serves as “a trusted partner for complex executive compensation and benefits matters.”
Experience
Amanda’s representations before joining Davis Polk include:
- Frontier in its $20 billion acquisition by Verizon
- UScellular’s independent directors in the $4.4 billion sale of UScellular’s wireless operations and select spectrum assets to T‑Mobile
- Brookfield Reinsurance in its $4.3 billion acquisition of American Equity Investment Life, following the strategic partnership with AEL in which Brookfield acquired a 19.9% stake through a PIPE equity investment
- Brookfield Renewable in its $2.8 billion acquisition of Duke Energy Renewables
- Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company
- Star Bulk in its $2.1 billion combination with Eagle Bulk Shipping
- White Mountains in the $1.75 billion sale of Bamboo to CVC, its earlier acquisition of a majority stake in Bamboo, and its acquisition of a majority stake in Distinguished
- The senior executive team of McLarens in connection with the $1.6 billion recapitalization of McLarens by Lee Equity Partners
- Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance in its $1.44 billion investment in Barings
- Paragon 28 in its $1.2 billion acquisition by Zimmer Biomet
- Alliance Laundry Systems in its $950.29 million IPO
- Oshkosh in its $800 million acquisition of the AeroTech business from JBT
- Viatris in its $750 million acquisitions of Oyster Point and Famy Life Sciences
- Hain Celestial in the pending $115 million sale of its North American Snacks business to Snackruptors
- Ashland in the sale of its nutraceuticals business to Turnspire Capital Partners
- ECN Capital in the sale of Red Oak
- IsoPlexis in its acquisition by Berkeley Lights
- Legal & General Group in its strategic investment in Taurus Investment Holdings
- Montana Technologies in its joint venture with GE Vernova and its joint commercial collaboration with, and growth equity investment from, Carrier
- OMERS Private Equity in its acquisition of Integris and its acquisition of a majority stake in Knight Commercial
- Pacific General in its acquisition of a majority stake in Lenwich
- SoftBank in
- its $40 billion sale of Arm to NVIDIA
- its $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint
- the $59 billion merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US
- WeWork’s merger with BowX Acquisition Corp with an initial enterprise value of $9 billion
- DaVita in its $4.4 billion acquisition of HealthCare Partners
- Hortonworks in a $5.2 billion merger of equals with Cloudera
Recognition
Chambers USA – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, New York
Legal 500 U.S. – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional, Next Generation Partner
Lawdragon – 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers, 2024-2026
Education
- magna cum laude
- Managing Editor, Arizona State Law Journal
Prior experience
- Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 2022-2026
- Partner, Morrison & Foerster, 2020-2022
- Counsel, Morrison & Foerster, 2017-2019
- Associate, Morrison & Foerster, 2011-2017
- Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 2011
- Associate, Snell & Wilmer, 2007-2011
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York