Travis Triano

Advises clients on a wide variety of executive compensation matters, with a particular emphasis on compensation aspects of M&A transactions, IPOs and spinoffs.
Travis advises clients on a wide variety of executive compensation matters, with a particular emphasis on compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and spinoffs. He has extensive experience advising on the design and implementation of incentive compensation arrangements; the negotiation of executive employment, change in control and severance agreements; and compensation-related corporate governance, public company disclosure and section 16 matters.
His practice ranges across a variety of industries, including biotech, technology, financial services, energy, consumer products and retail, and industrials.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Instant Brands sale of substantially all of its assets to Centre Lane Partners
- NICE acquisition of LiveVox
- Roivant Sciences registered direct offering and investment in Immunovant
- MSCI $697 million acquisition of Burgiss Group
- Campbell Soup $2.7 billion acquisition of Sovos Brands
- Cadeler $597 million combination with Eneti
- Instant Brands chapter 11 filing and $257.5 million DIP financing
- Emerson $8.2 billion acquisition of National Instruments
- Emerson $7.6 billion proposal to acquire National Instruments
- Emerson $14 billion sale of Climate Technologies to Blackstone
- Bausch + Lomb $630 million IPO
- Emerson sale of Therm-O-Disc to One Rock Capital Partners
- TEAM term loan amendment and debt refinancing
- Alpha Capital Acquisition merger with Semantix
- Emerson acquires control of Aspen Technology in $11 billion transaction
- Genesis Capital sale to New Residential Investment
Insights
Education
- magna cum laude
- Associate Editor, Cardozo Law Review
- Dean's List
Professional history
- Partner, 2021-present
- Davis Polk since 2013
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York