Jameson G. Frazier

Jameson Frazier’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefits matters in connection with mergers, acquisitions and other business transactions. Mr. Frazier has extensive experience advising clients with respect to the hiring of executive officers; the design and implementation of compensation and benefits arrangements; public disclosures regarding executive compensation; and the governance, legal and regulatory issues raised by compensation practices of public and private companies.

Selected representations include:

• Stanley Black and Decker, Inc. in the $760 million sale of its infrastructure business to Epiroc AB
• Kaman Corporation in its $1.8 billion sale to Arcline Investment Management, L.P.
• Reliance Industries Limited in its $8.5 billion joint venture with The Walt Disney Company and Viacom 18 Media Private Limited
• Livongo Health, Inc. in its $18.5 billion sale to Teladoc Health, Inc.
• Apartment Investment and Management Company in its $10.4 billion spin-off of Apartment Investment REIT Corp.
• Credit Karma, Inc. in its $8.1 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc. and its $50 million divestiture of its tax business, Credit Karma Tax, to Square, Inc.
• UBS Investment Bank as underwriter of the initial public offering of Centuri Holdings, Inc.
• Vericity, Inc. in its $170 million sale to iA Financial Corporation, Inc.
• Dai-Ichi Life Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition of a minority interest in Canyon Partners, LLC
• Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V in its $6.6 billion merger with Social Finance, Inc.
• Coherent, Inc. in its $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum Holdings Inc., followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war that culminated in Coherent’s $7.1 billion sale to II-VI
• Visa Inc. in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid Inc.
• Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II in its $4.8 billion merger with Opendoor Labs Inc.
• PayPal Holdings Inc. in its $4 billion acquisition of Honey Science Corporation
• ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp. in its $2.1 billion merger with Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
• Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp in its $2.7 billion merger with Berkshire Grey, Inc.
• Honeywell International Inc. in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Sparta Systems, Inc.
• Intel Corporation in its $1 billion sale of its 5G modem chipset manufacturing division to Apple, Inc.
• Crescent Acquisition Corp. in its $840 million merger with LiveVox Holdings, Inc.
• ResMed Inc. in its $750 million acquisition of MatrixCare, Inc.
• DoorDash Inc. in its $410 million acquisition of Caviar, LLC from Square Inc.
• Mars Inc. in its acquisition of PrettyLitter Inc.
• Airbnb, Inc. in its acquisition of HotelTonight, LLC