Doreen Lilienfeld
Doreen Lilienfeld

She has been a resident in the Frankfurt, London and Bay Area offices of the firm. She is a lecturer in Executive Compensation at the Berkeley School of Law.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

Technology and Telecom
  • Altice USA, Inc., in its separation and spin-off from Altice N.V., including its initial public offering of common stock and Altice N.V. in its $17.7 billion purchase of Cablevision.
  • Citrix Systems Inc. in its acquisition of Wrike, Inc.
  • Hitachi in its $9.5 billion acquisition of GlobalLogic Inc.
  • Intapp in its $314 million initial public offering and Nasdaq listing.
  • Liberty Global plc in its acquisition of Cable and Wireless Communications plc in a public transaction valued at $8.2 billion; and its $23.3 billion acquisition of Virgin Media plc and as parent of Virgin Media in its joint venture with O2.
  • NIC Inc. in its $2.3 billion all-cash acquisition by Tyler Technologies Inc.
  • Quest Diagnostics in various matters, including its acquisitions of Athena Diagnostics, Inc. and Celera Corporation; and its $2 billion acquisition of AmeriPath.
  • Salesforce.com in its $2.8 billion public tender offer for Demandware, Inc. and in its acquisition of private company Quip, Inc.
  • SAP SE and Qualtrics International Inc. in the carve out of Qualtrics from SAP, consisting of Qualtrics' $1.55 billion public offering; Qualtrics International in its $1.125 billion acquisition of Clarabridge and; the subsequent $12.5 billion sale of Qualtrics Silver Lake and CPP investments.
  • Telus International in connection with its NYSE listing and its acquisition of Lionbridge AI.
  • Texas Instruments Incorporated in its $900 million acquisition of substantially all of the assets related to the operations of a 300-mm semiconductor factory in Lehi, Utah from Micron Technology, Inc.
  • Vice Media in its Chapter 11 filing and related employee compensation matters.
  • VMware on its acquisitions of Octarine, Datrium and SaltStack, Inc.
  • Vontier Corporation in its definitive agreement to acquire DRB Systems, from affiliates of New Mountain Capital for approximately $965 million.
  • WebMD Health Corporation in its sale to KKR in a $2.8 billion tender offer.
  • Zillow, Inc. in its acquisition of competitor Trulia, Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • AcelRx Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Lowell Therapeutics.
  • Atrion Corporation in its $815 million merger with Nordson Corp.
  • CVS Health in its $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, and its $10.6 billion acquisition of Oak Street Health.
  • GlaxoSmithKline plc in its $5.1 billion acquisition of Tesaro.
  • Ambipar Response's business, an environmental services provider, in its combination with HPX.
  • invoX Pharma Limited, on its acquisition of F-star Therapeutics, Inc. for $161 million.
  • Novartis' $3.9 billion acquisition of Advanced Accelerator Applications.
Transport and Industrials
  • Albemarle Corporation in its $6.2 billion merger with Rockwood Holdings, Inc. and its $3.2 billion sale of its Chemetall Surface Treatment Business to BASF.
  • B/E Aerospace, Inc. on its process to separate its industry-leading businesses into two independent, publicly traded companies, including management team transitions and appointments related to the separation.
  • The Dow Chemical Company in its $130 billion transaction with DuPont involving combination of the two companies and separating them into three publicly trading entities and the resulting $50 billion spin-off of Dow Inc.; its $5 billion Reverse Morris Trust transaction with Olin; its acquisition of Rohm and Haas Corporation; its $1.67 billion auction sale of Morton Salt to K+S Aktiengesellschaft; its $1.63 billion auction sale of Styron to Bain Capital; its auction sale of the global polypropylene business to Braskem; and advice to Dow on related compensation and pension matters.
  • Laxness in connection with its $1.075 billion acquisition of Emerald Kalama Chemical.
  • LyondellBasell Industries N.V. in its $2.25 billion acquisition of A. Schulman, Inc.
  • KMG Chemicals $1.6 billion acquisition by Cabot Microelectronics Corporation.
Consumer, Food and Retail
  • Bojangles, Inc. in its sale to Durational Capital Management and The Jordan Company in a public company merger transaction.
  • The Chefs' Warehouse in its acquisition of Chef Middle East, a leading distributer of specialty food and beverage products in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman, from Gulf Capital.
  • Tire Rack Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition by Discount Tire.
Energy and Energy Transition
  • American Water Works Company, Inc. in its $1.275 billion sale of its Homeowner Services Group to funds advised by Apax.
  • Aegion Corporation in its $963 million sale to an affiliate of New Mountain Capital, L.L.C.
  • General Electric in the combination of the GE Oil & Gas Business with Baker Hughes, Inc. to create a $32 billion oilfield provider.
  • Volta, an industry-leading electric vehicle charging and media company, in an agreement to be acquired by Shell USA, for $169 million.
Financial Services
  • Société Générale, a leading European bank, on its plan to form a joint venture with AllianceBernstein, a leading global investment management and research firm, through the combination of their respective cash equity and equity research businesses.
  • Regularly advises individual executives of public companies and private enterprises on employment, severance and retention issues, including:
    - Jim Bell, in his separation as CFO of GameStop.
    - The management team of Wolt in its acquisition by Doordash.
    - Pina Albo, CEO of Hamilton Group.
    - Fred Knechtel, CFO of Genewiz, Inc.
    - Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus of Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
    - Balan Nair, CEO of Liberty Latin America.
    - The Management Team of MeetUp, Inc. (now a subsidiary of WeWork).
    - The executive team of Talen Energy in its acquisition by Riverstone Holdings.
    - The management team of MoPub Inc. in its separation from Twitter, Inc.
    - David Karp, the founder and CEO of tumblr, with his employment, retention and tax arrangements in connection with its sale to Yahoo! for $1.1 billion.
    - Carole Hochman as the CEO of Naked Brand Group.
    - Eileen O'Neill in the negotiation of her employment agreement in connection with her promotion to the position of Global Group President, Discovery Studios.
    - The management team of Ebates Inc. in the negotiation of a retention plan, employment agreements, and the departure arrangements for the CFO, in connection with Ebates $1 billion acquisition by Rakuten, Inc.
    - Victor Luis, the CEO of Coach, Inc.
    - Andy Main, the CEO of Bakkt.

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Advisory Board, Women in Law Empowerment Forum
  • Member, Advisory Board (and two-term board member), Lawyers Alliance for New York (pro bono)
  • Fellow, American College of Governance Counsel
  • Vice Chair, Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Committee of the ABA Section of Real Property, Trusts and Estate Law
  • Member, Law360 Editorial Advisory Board for Benefits, 2022 - 2023
  • David Rockefeller Fellow, Partnership for New York City, 2019 - 2022

Recognition

Doreen is a great project lead and team manager. She sets the strategy and tone.
Chambers USA Guide, 2024, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
She is very responsive providing an excellent work product. I have nothing but great things to say about her.
Chambers USA Guide, 2024, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Awards

  • Outstanding Achievement Award, International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Women in Business Law Awards (2024)
  • Recognized as "Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year", IFLR, Women in Business Law Awards (2023)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards (2023)
  • Her Compensation, Governance and ERISA team was awarded Benefits Team of the Year by Law360 (2020)
  • Winner of Euromoney Americas Women in Business Law Award for Best in Corporate Governance (2018)
  • Included in Euromoney's Women in Business Law guide for Corporate Governance (2019, 2020)
  • Included in the "Notable Women in Law" list for Corporate Governance by Crain's New York Business (2019)
  • Winner of the Chambers Women in Law Award for Leadership in the Community (2015)
  • For the past twenty-one years, Doreen has spearheaded the publication of the Shearman & Sterling survey of the compensation-related corporate governance practices of the largest 100 domestic issuers

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