Jackson Phinney
Partner Employment & Labor
Overview
Jackson Phinney is an Employment & Labor partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Jackson’s practice focuses primarily on labor and employment issues implicated in the context of corporate transactions, and Jackson has represented clients in hundreds of deals comprising the full suite of domestic and cross-border mergers, equity and asset transactions, and corporate carve-outs and joint ventures. Jackson also counsels clients in connection with a diverse array of supplementary employment matters, including with respect to personnel onboarding, transition and separation; restrictive covenant enforceability; disputes and misconduct; internal reorganizations; employee leasing and secondment; wage and hour compliance; union and labor relations; and employee policies and procedures.
Experience
Representative Matters
Corporate Transaction Representations
- Mergers and equity transactions
- Asset acquisitions and divestitures
- Corporate carve-outs, spin-offs and reorganizations
- Joint ventures
- Bankruptcy sale processes
Onboarding, Transition & Separation Representations
- Financial sponsors and public and private companies in connection with personnel onboarding, transition and separation
Counseling Representations
- Restrictive covenant drafting and enforceability related to employment and ancillary documents
- Litigation avoidance and risk mitigation in connection with employment-related disputes
- COVID-19, including liability, vaccination and return to work issues
- Employment policy and procedure implementations
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial InternHonorable John GleesonUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Prior Experience
Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
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Memberships & Affiliations
New York State Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Education
- University of Virginia School of LawJ.D.
- University of DelawareB.A., History & English LiteraturePhi Beta Kappa
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Kellanova on $35.9 Billion Acquisition by Mars
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Bain Capital on $250 Million Minority Growth Investment in Technology-Enabled Professional Services Firm Sikich
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill Partners Investment in Kennedy Lewis Investment Management
- Press Release Kirkland Advises TJC on Acquisition of Commercial Aviation Solutions Business from L3Harris
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Old Republic International Corporation on Sale of Mortgage Insurance Business to Arch Capital