	Edmond T. FitzGerald Partner New York edmond.fitzgerald@davispolk.com +1 212 450 4644 As a partner in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department and head of the Executive Compensation Group, Mr. FitzGerald counsels clients on matters involving senior executive compensation and benefits, both in the ordinary course of clients’ business and in the context of mergers and acquisitions, new ventures, and restructurings. He has extensive experience in structuring employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections, and management participation in buyouts and new ventures. He has experience in domestic and international M&A across a variety of sectors. He typically represents companies and their boards and compensation committees, although he represents individual principals and management teams in the context of special ventures and he has represented senior executives in limited situations. Mr. FitzGerald also advises clients in structuring investment products, financial services and investment funds offered to large pension plans and similar institutional investors.

Edmond T. FitzGerald

Partner

New York

As a partner in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department and head of the Executive Compensation Group, Mr. FitzGerald counsels clients on matters involving senior executive compensation and benefits, both in the ordinary course of clients’ business and in the context of mergers and acquisitions, new ventures, and restructurings.

He has extensive experience in structuring employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections, and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.

He has experience in domestic and international M&A across a variety of sectors. He typically represents companies and their boards and compensation committees, although he represents individual principals and management teams in the context of special ventures and he has represented senior executives in limited situations.

Mr. FitzGerald also advises clients in structuring investment products, financial services and investment funds offered to large pension plans and similar institutional investors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NEWS, RESOURCES & EVENTS

Work Highlights

M&A Advice

Aetna’s proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana and $7.3 billion acquisition of Coventry Health Care
Tyson Foods’s contested $8.55 billion acquisition of Hillshire Brands
Thomas & Betts’ $3.9 billion sale to ABB Switzerland
CVS Caremark’s $2.9 billion acquisition of Longs Drug Stores and $1.25 billion acquisition of the Medicare Part D business of Universal American
AstraZeneca’s $2.7 billion acquisition of ZS Pharma
Campbell Soup’s $1.55 billion acquisition of Bolthouse Farms

Capital Markets Transactions

Arcos Dorados’ $1.4 billion SEC-registered IPO
Artio Global Investors’ $650 million SEC-registered IPO

Other Matters

Patriot Coal’s confirmation of its Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization
ERISA asset management and investment structuring advice to various financial institutions, advisers and plans

Recognition

Mr. FitzGerald is consistently recognized as a leader in the legal industry:

Chambers USA – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation: Nationwide: Band 1, 2012-2018
Chambers USA – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation: New York: Star Individual 2016-2018

He is recognized as a leading executive compensation lawyer in various industry publications: