Joseph S. Brown
Lawyers
Advises public, strategic and private equity clients on executive compensation matters, including in the context of M&A, IPOs, financings and restructurings.
Joseph advises public, strategic and private equity clients on a broad range of executive compensation matters, including in the context of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, financings and corporate restructurings. He counsels clients on equity-based and other incentive compensation plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and employment, severance and change in control agreements.
Experience
Recent Work
- Global Eggs $1.1 billion acquisition of Hillandale Farms
- S&P Global spinoff of S&P Global Mobility
- TPG $1.1 billion acquisition of Sabre’s Hospitality Solutions business unit
- S&P Global and CME Group $3.1 billion sale of OSTTRA to KKR
- Rokt $300 million merger with mParticle
- Summit Materials $11.5 billion acquisition by Quikrete Holdings
- Lumio chapter 11 filing, DIP financing and stalking horse bid
- Novo Nordisk acquisition of certain Catalent sites from Novo Holdings
- Ferrara Candy acquisition of Jelly Belly Candy
- ExxonMobil $59.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources
- Bain Capital financing for Harrington Industrial Plastics acquisition
- J. M. Smucker $800 million term loan facility
- Sale of majority stake in Engage PEO to Kohlberg & Company
- ExxonMobil $4.9 billion acquisition of Denbury
- Crestview strategic investment in The Gersh Agency
- Weber take-private acquisition by BDT Capital Partners and related financings
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Senior Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
B.A., Political Science, University of Michigan
Prior experience
- Schulte Roth & Zabel, 2015-2017
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York