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Brian Jebb

Biography

Brian is Global Co-Head of Compensation, Employment, Pensions & Governance.

Brian has particular expertise advising global employers on employment laws, compensation and employee benefits issues, and acting on domestic and cross-border transactions.

Brian is valued by clients for his ability to advise clearly on complex matters, and is published regularly on employment and benefit matters. Brian has wide experience of all employment and benefit aspects of corporate transactions, including M&As, LBOs, spin-offs and IPOs. He advises public and private companies and private equity firms on the design and implementation of their annual and long-term incentive compensation plans, hiring and reduction of workforce, employment and separation agreements, restrictive covenants, equity incentive compensation arrangements, severance and retention arrangements, taxation, ERISA, securities and regulatory laws. Brian has also advised senior executives and management teams in relation to their employment arrangements. He advises private equity funds on executive compensation and ERISA issues in transactions. Brian also advises on ERISA issues in credit agreements, transactions and plan asset issues in venture capital arrangements.

Brian was individually ranked by Chambers USA as one of the leading lawyers in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, and his work with global clients has been noted in Legal 500. Brian is also a member of the A&O Shearman Global Wellbeing Advisory Board.

Practice areas

  • Global employment and compensation
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Public company advisory and corporate governance
  • Private equity
  • Disputes

Sectors

  • Technology
  • Private equity
  • Communications media and entertainment
  • Semiconductors

Selected experience

  • A private equity firm on its acquisition of Seven Seas Water Group, a leading provider of sustainable water and wastewater solutions, from a global financial institution.
  • LPL Financial Holdings on the acquisition of Commonwealth Financial Network.
  • Macquarie Asset Management in USD1.8bn sale of investments business to Nomura.
  • A global healthcare company on USD2.2bn acquisition of RAPT Therapeutics.
  • SABIC on two significant transactions to divest its European Petrochemicals (EP) business to AEQUITA and its Engineering Thermoplastics (ETP) business in the Americas and Europe to Mutares.
  • Greif in the USD1.8 billion divestiture of its containerboard business to Packaging Corporation of America.
  • Inflexion on the transfer of CNX Therapeutics to Inflexion’s new GBP2.3bn continuation fund, and the implementation of new equity arrangements between the continuation fund and existing CNX management.
  • South African private hospital operator Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited on the sale of Life Molecular Imaging Limited to Lantheus Holdings, inc.
  • RHI Magnesita N.V. on its acquisition of Resco Products, Inc. for an enterprise value of up to USD410m.
  • A multinational media conglomerate agreement on HR issues globally with respect to its agreement to sell a majority stake in its Financial & Risk business to a consortium led by Blackstone for approximately US$17bn.

Education

  • LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2005
  • LL.B., University of Western Australia, 1994

Admissions

  • Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2024
  • Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 2006
  • Formerly admitted to practice in New South Wales
  • Formerly admitted to practice in Western Australia