Marian Fielding

MARIAN FIELDING helps clients draft a variety of plan documents, such as employment agreements, severance agreements, and performance and equity compensation arrangements. In addition, Marian’s experience includes assisting on the employee benefits aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions and advising clients regarding executive compensation disclosure under the federal securities laws.

Marian received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.S. and MBA in business administration from Florida A&M University. 

• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, in its equity commitment with Longview Infrastructure, a newly formed electric transmission development and investment platform.
• Sagard Healthcare Partners (Sagard) in providing up to US$250 million in non-dilutive financings to Nuvation Bio Inc. (NYSE: NUVB), a global biopharmaceutical company tackling some of the greatest unmet needs in oncology.
• A fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management in its agreement to acquire a 40% equity interest in Diamond Infrastructure Solutions (Diamond) from Dow Inc. for approximately US$2.4 billion. Diamond provides specialist infrastructure services to Dow and other industrial customers at five Dow manufacturing sites in Texas and Louisiana.
• National Western in its US$1.9 billion acquisition by an affiliate of Prosperity Life.
• Audeze in its acquisition by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
• Flex Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX) and its Fremont, California-based solar technology subsidiary, Nextracker Inc. (Nasdaq: NXT), in its upsized US$734.2 million initial public offering, making it the largest IPO of 2023.
• Innovative clean make-up company ILIA Inc. in its acquisition by Famille C, the Courtin-Clarins family holding company and owner of the Clarins brand.
• General Datatech, a leading IT solutions provider, in a growth investment by H.I.G. Capital, a leading global alternative investment firm with over US$45 billion of equity capital under management.
• Darling Ingredients Inc. in its US$1.1 billion acquisition of Valley Proteins.
• Argos Health, a portfolio company of Welsh Carson Anderson and Stowe, in its merger with EnableComp.
• Skincare company Youth to the People in its acquisition by L’Oréal.
• Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP, a publicly traded limited partnership focused on the acquisition, development, and ownership of infrastructure critical to the transition of energy supply to lower-carbon sources and a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, in its agreement with HOBO Renewable Diesel, LLC (HOBO), a renewable fuel project developer, to fund HOBO’s initial project, expected to produce more than 120 million gallons of renewable fuels annually.
• Cresta Fund Management and Silverpeak Energy Partners in its agreement with San Joaquin Renewables to invest up to US$165 million to develop and construct a biomass-to-renewable natural gas project near McFarland, California.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance in its agreement to invest US$5.2 billion in VillageMD.
• Steward Health Care System LLC in its sale of five hospitals and related hospital operations in Utah to HCA Healthcare, Inc.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its proposed US$5.2 billion acquisition of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., a global leader in talent management software.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Oryx Midstream Holdings LLC, a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, in a joint venture with Plains All American Pipeline, of their respective Permian Basin assets, operations, and commercial activities.
• Steward Health Care System LLC in its acquisition of Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s five hospitals and related hospital operations in Florida’s Miami-Dade and Southern Broward Counties for approximately US$1.1 billion.
• AAE Aerospace Group in connection with its sale to affiliates of investment funds managed by Trive Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm.
• GIC in connection with its agreement to acquire an indirect 19.9% equity interest in Duke Energy Indiana for a total purchase price of US$2.05 billion.