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K. J. Salameh
Biography
K.J. regularly advises both public and private companies regarding the design and implementation of equity-based incentive plans and various employment arrangements, including with respect to executive employment agreements, retention and severance plans, treatment of equity and other labor matters in the mergers and acquisitions context and securities and tax law compliance with respect to equity offerings.
K.J. strategically advises companies on how to best navigate corporate governance issues implicated by existing and future compensation practices from both a legal and practical position. He also focuses on key considerations that go hand-in-hand with public company disclosure requirements, including with respect to annual reports and 8-K reports, peer group benchmarking of disclosure practices and Section 16 reporting and compliance.
Practice areas
- Global employment and compensation
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
Selected experience
- CVS Health Corporation in its $10.6 billion acquisition of Oak Street Health, Inc.
- TPG Inc. in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Angelo Gordon.
- TPG Inc. on the executive compensation, equity incentive, senior executive and founder retention matters and related governance and disclosure considerations in connection with its $1 billion initial public offering.
- Paramount Global on the sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR for $1.62 billion.
- Granite Construction Inc. in its acquisition of Lehman-Roberts Company and Memphis Stone & Gravel Company.
- CVS Health Ventures in its Series D investment in Carbon Health.
- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation in its acquisition of Florida City Gas from NextEra Energy.
- Anglo American plc on the combination of its nuGen™ Zero Emissions Haulage Solution with First Mode Holdings, Inc.
- BuildGroup LLC, in connection with its purchase of Series A-1 and A-2 Preferred Stock of Amelia Holdings, Inc.
- Qoo10 Pte. Ltd. in its acquisition of ContextLogic Inc. (d/b/a WISH)
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D.
- Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College, B.A.
Admissions
- New York