Elizabeth T. Burns

LIZZY BURNS regularly advises clients in connection with executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and financings. Her practice also includes designing, administering, and advising on cash-based incentives, equity-based incentives, employment, severance, retention, deferred compensation, change in control, retirement, and other compensation-related arrangements.

Lizzy received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Saint Louis University.

• Lineage in acquisition of Cold Storage Warehouses and related assets for US$247 million (pending).
• The special committee of the board of directors of Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) in its US$6.25 billion acquisition by certain members of the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool, S.A.B. de C.V. (pending).
• Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia in connection with a significant minority investment by Molson Coors Beverage Company.
• Premium haircare brand K18 in its agreement to be acquired by Unilever.
• Avantax in its US$1.2 billion acquisition by Cetera.
• Siris Capital Group in its acquisition of BearCom, a North American solutions provider of wireless communications and security technologies, from Bertram Capital.
• Publicly traded Regal Rexnord Corporation in its US$4.95 billion acquisition of publicly traded Altra Industrial Motions Corp.
• ZMC in its acquisition of Resonate, a provider of A.I.-powered consumer data and intelligence.
• The Hero Mighty Patch® brand (“Hero”) in its US$630 million acquisition by Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
• ZMC affiliated investment funds in their acquisition of iconic comedy brand The Second City.
• Pandora Media, Inc. in its sale to Sirius XM Holdings for US$3.5 billion, which combined the world’s leading satellite radio company with the leading U.S. internet radio company.
• Siris Capital Group LLC in connection with its agreement to acquire Web.com Group, Inc. for approximately US$2 billion in cash.
• Affiliates of Siris Capital Group, LLC in their US$1.7 billion acquisition of Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
• Navigant Consulting, Inc. ("Navigant"), in connection with Navigant entering into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Guidehouse LLP, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital for US$1.1 billion.
• Shape Security, Inc. in its proposed acquisition by F5 Networks, Inc. for US$1 billion in cash.