Chaoyuan (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
Recent Work
- Norinchukin Bank $500 million senior notes offering
- Godspeed Capital closes $675 million Fund III at hard cap
- Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance $1.75 billion subordinated notes offering
- DENSO $500 million sustainability bond offering
- GHK Capital Partners completes $870 million fundraise for its second fund
- Automatic Data Processing $1 billion notes offering
- Invincible Investment ¥55 billion global offering of investment units
- Mitsubishi HC Finance America $500 million guaranteed notes offering
- SMFG $4.5 billion senior and subordinated notes offerings
- JPMorgan Chase exchange offer for Alerian MLP Index ETNs
- AssetMark strategic alliance with Morningstar and related acquisition of assets
- Vitru merger and listing migration from Nasdaq to São Paulo Stock Exchange
- Zebra Technologies $500 million senior notes offering
- Meritage Homes $575 million convertible notes offering
- Hubbard Radio amendment to credit facility
- Lightyear GP-led secondary transaction and formation of continuation fund
Insights
Education
- cum laude
- Articles Editor, Georgetown Law Journal
- cum laude
- Tau Beta Pi
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York