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Jeanie Cogill is a partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice. She specializes in the executive compensation, employee benefits and ERISA fiduciary areas of law.
Jeanie advises public and private companies across a variety of industry sectors on all aspects of executive compensation arrangements, including equity incentive programs, employment agreements, change in control protections, incentive programs and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Jeanie also regularly advises clients on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. Jeanie helps employers, management, and plan fiduciary committees design, establish and administer tax-qualified pension plans, health and welfare plans and fringe benefit programs, and counsels them on their fiduciary, tax and other compliance responsibilities.
Jeanie also counsels investment managers and their principals, including sponsors of hedge funds, private equity funds and real estate funds, on the fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA, including the structuring and administration of private commingled funds that are marketed to employee benefit plans and tax-advantaged accounts.
B.A., University of Sydney, Australia
Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney Law School, honors
New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Member, American Bar Association (Tax Section)
Member, Benefits Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2019 and 2020)
French
May 16, 2022
ManTech to be Acquired by Funds Managed by Carlyle For $4.2B
May 12, 2022
Axium Infrastructure Acquires BlueWave, a Solar and Energy Storage Development Company
April 13, 2022
Margaritaville Partners with Rockpoint
March 17, 2022
DOL Expresses Extreme Skepticism About Allowing 401(k) Plan Participants to Invest in Cryptocurrency
January 1, 2022
Department of Labor Wants to “Remove Barriers” to Consideration of ESG Factors in Investment and Proxy Voting Decisions
November 1, 2021
Department of Labor Wants to "Remove Barriers" to Consideration of ESG Factors in Investment and Proxy Voting Decisions
May 16, 2022
ManTech to be Acquired by Funds Managed by Carlyle For $4.2B
May 12, 2022
Axium Infrastructure Acquires BlueWave, a Solar and Energy Storage Development Company
April 13, 2022
Margaritaville Partners with Rockpoint
March 17, 2022
DOL Expresses Extreme Skepticism About Allowing 401(k) Plan Participants to Invest in Cryptocurrency
January 1, 2022
Department of Labor Wants to “Remove Barriers” to Consideration of ESG Factors in Investment and Proxy Voting Decisions
November 1, 2021
Department of Labor Wants to "Remove Barriers" to Consideration of ESG Factors in Investment and Proxy Voting Decisions
May 16, 2022
ManTech to be Acquired by Funds Managed by Carlyle For $4.2B
May 12, 2022
Axium Infrastructure Acquires BlueWave, a Solar and Energy Storage Development Company
April 13, 2022
Margaritaville Partners with Rockpoint
B.A., University of Sydney, Australia
Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney Law School, honors
New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Member, American Bar Association (Tax Section)
Member, Benefits Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2019 and 2020)
French