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Tom Topping

员工福利与管理层薪酬

ttopping@sidley.com

芝加哥 +1 312 853 6104

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TOM TOPPING regularly advises clients on the design and implementation of a wide variety of employee benefit plans including qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, equity incentive plans, cafeteria plans and health and welfare plans.

Tom also has substantial experience advising clients on the employee benefits and executive compensation issues arising in connection with mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions, including issues arising under ERISA and Sections 280G and 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.

Tom graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Darrow Scholar and served on the Michigan Journal of Race and Law.

经验

Representing DaVita Inc, a leading provider of kidney care services, in its agreement to expand its international operations in Brazil and Colombia and its entry into Chile and Ecuador. The deal involves four separate acquisitions from Fresenius Medical Care for a total purchase price of US$300 million.
Represented EnLink Midstream with Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation advice in connection with EnLink’s US$275 million acquisition of North Texas gathering and processing assets from Crestwood Equity Partners.
Represented Churchill Downs Incorporated in its US$2.485 billion acquisition of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment LLC.
Represented Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors, LLC in their US$640 million acquisition of Transtar, LLC from United States Steel Corporation.
Represented Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its approximately US$200 million acquisition of BridgeCrew Inc.
Represented the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of FBL Financial Group, Inc. in a definitive agreement for Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company (FBPCIC) to acquire outstanding shares of FBL Financial Group for approximately US$580 million.
Represented Pretium Partners, LCC in its strategic partnership with Ares Management Corporation to acquire Front Yard Corporation.
Represented Palo Alto Networks in its US$265 million acquisition of The Crypsis Group, a risk management and digital forensics consulting firm.
Represented Splunk, Inc. in its acquisition of SignalFx, Inc., an SaaS leader in real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure, microservices, and applications, valued at US$1.05 billion.
Represented Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated in the merger by and among HFF, Inc. valued at US$2,000,000,000.
Represented CareerBuilder, a portfolio company majority-owned by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, in its sale of Textkernel, a CareerBuilder subsidiary company and global leading AI powered HR technology provider headquartered in the Netherlands, to Main Capital Partners.

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