Advises domestic and international clients, including privately held and publicly traded companies, on complex compensation and employee benefits matters.
Counsels clients on compensation and benefits matters arising in the context of mergers & acquisitions, financial restructurings, spinoffs, initial public offerings and other corporate transactions.
Extensive experience advising on executive compensation issues in bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency contexts and structuring and implementation of pre-transaction and post-transaction compensation plans.

Stephanie’s practice focuses on the full spectrum of executive compensation & employee benefits matters. She acts as lead executive compensation & employee benefits lawyer on private equity (PE) transactions, public company mergers & acquisitions (M&A), financial restructurings, spinoffs, initial public offerings (IPOs) and other corporate transactions. Stephanie also regularly advises compensation committees, boards of directors and senior management on executive compensation and governance matters.

Stephanie advises on the design, structuring, negotiation and implementation of tax-efficient management equity arrangements, executive employment and compensation arrangements, separation agreements, and deferred compensation, change-in-control and other incentive plans.

Representative Work

M&A Transactions and Private Equity Representations

Represented 7-Eleven Inc. in its $21-billion acquisition of Speedway from Marathon Petroleum Corp.
Represented a publicly traded company in its acquisition of a health care technology company.
Advised Princeton Equity Group, a leading PE firm exclusively focused on the franchisor and multiunit industry, on its strategic investment in Pirtek, a prominent franchisor of hydraulic hose repair and replacement services.
Advised Vista Credit Partners, the credit-investing arm of Vista Equity Partners, in a Series E preferred equity investment in aPriori Technologies Inc., an industry-leading software company that provides businesses with innovative management and manufacturing simulation and analytics tools.
Advised Vista Credit Partners in a $150-million Series G investment in VideoAmp, an adtech company providing measurement, data and software solutions for the advertising ecosystem.

Advised Tapstone Energy in a sale to Diversified Energy Company (DEC) pursuant to which DEC acquired Tapstone and substantially all of the assets of affiliated entity KL CHK SPV, which includes upstream assets, field infrastructure, equipment and facilities in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma.
Represented a PE sponsor in a leveraged acquisition of a regional automotive services company.

Restructuring Transactions

Represented Loyalty Ventures Inc., a leading provider of tech-enabled, data-driven consumer loyalty solutions, on an $825-million term and revolving credit facility.
Provided counsel to an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of Frontier Communications and its affiliates, an American telecommunications company, involving $17 billion in liabilities.
Provided counsel to Sungard Availability Services and its affiliates, a global operator of colocation data and disaster recovery centers, in their chapter 11 cases involving more than $500 million in liabilities and the sale of substantially all of the company’s assets.
Provided counsel to the ad hoc noteholder committee in the multijurisdictional cases of Weatherford International and its affiliates, one of the world's largest oilfield services firms, involving $8.3 billion in liabilities.
Provided counsel to an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Cineworld and its affiliates, the world’s second-largest movie chain, involving $4 billion in liabilities.
Represented an ad hoc group of first-lien creditors of Avaya Inc.
Advised GTT Communications and its affiliates, operator of one of the largest Tier 1 internet networks in the world, in their chapter 11 cases involving $4.5 billion in liabilities.
Advised on the financial restructuring of Centric Brands, a leading lifestyle brands collective, which emerged from voluntary chapter 11 proceedings.