Christine A. Lacku

Partner Employment & Labor

New York +1 212 390 4547

Christine A. Lacku

Practices

Overview

Christine Lacku is an employment & labor partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Christine Lacku advises public and private companies on all aspects of labor and employment matters in the context of U.S. and multijurisdictional corporate transactions, including due diligence, drafting of transaction-related documents, risk assessment, and post-acquisition workforce integration and employment counseling. For her private equity clients and their portfolio companies, Christine provides full labor and employment support from acquisition to exit, including buy-side representation, day-to-day employment counseling and sell side representation. Christine has worked on thousands of transactions ranging from minority stake investments to multibillion-dollar carve-outs across dozens of jurisdictions, helping clients navigate the employment aspects of these complex transactions as a trusted and commercial business advisor.

Christine also advises on labor and employment issues in restructuring and bankruptcy matters, for sponsors in connection with GP agreements and partner and employee compensation arrangements and terminations, and for family offices and high-net-worth individuals.

Christine has extensive experience in drafting of employment-related agreements, policies and procedures; employee terminations and reductions in force; WARN; sale of business and employment based restrictive covenants; wage and hour compliance; worker classification issues; harassment and discrimination; union issues; internal investigations; and the resolution of employment-related disputes.

Walgreens Boots Alliance in its $23.7 billion acquisition by Sycamore Partners

KKR in its $4.475 billion acquisition of the Atlantic Aviation business of Macquarie Infrastructure Corp.

RES and KKR on new and continued investments into RES

TH International (Tims China) in its $1.8 billion business combination with Silver Crest Acquisition Corporation and Go Public on Nasdaq

Windjammer Capital in its acquisition of Compex Legal Services

Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of IXS Holdings, Inc.

FountainVest in its acquisition of Ziwi

Huntsman in its acquisition of Icynene-Lapolla

Huntsman Corporation in its $300 million acquisition of CVC Thermoset Specialties

Huntsman Corporation in its $2.1 billion sale of its chemical intermediates business and its surfactants business to Indorama Ventures

RimRock Oil & Gas Williston and its sponsor Warburg Pincus in the $500 million acquisition of Fort Berthold Indian Reservation area assets from Whiting Petroleum Corp.

Anastasia Beverly Hills in its partnership with TPG Capital

Further Global Capital Management in its investment in E78 Partners

Express in its acquisition of Bonobos from Walmart

Internal investigations into discrimination and hostile work environment allegations

Public companies, private equity firms, hedge funds and banks related to entering, modifying and exiting employment relationships

Founders, partners, CEOs, portfolio managers and other senior executives in connection with employment, partnership, consulting, compensation and equity arrangements

Unions negotiations to carve out sponsor client from coverage under union neutrality agreement

 

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2015New York

Education

  • New York University School of LawJ.D.cum laude2014
    Staff Editor, Annual Survey of American Law
  • Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor RelationsB.S.2011