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King & Spalding

Compensation and Benefits Insights – April 2020

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On November 22, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (the “First Circuit”) reversed the 2016 decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (the “District Court”) in Sun Capital...more

Jones Day

Private Equity Update: 1st Circuit Reverses Imposition of Pension Plan Withdrawal Liability

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The Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 ("MPPAA") amended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") and the Internal Revenue Code to make "trade[s] or business[es]" that are under "common...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Viewpoints: Portfolio Company Pension Liabilities

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New York partner Bradd Williamson, Global Chair of Latham’s Benefits, Compensation & Employment Practice, and Chicago partner Robin Struve discuss Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Recent Sun Capital Decision Provides Welcome Relief but Leaves Uncertainty

Key Points - The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a lower court decision which held that two affiliated private equity funds with indirect ownership interests in the same portfolio company were liable for...more

A&O Shearman

First Circuit Finds That Funds Were Not Liable for Portfolio Company’s Pension Fund Withdrawal Liability

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On November 22, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that two separate private equity funds managed by the same general partner/management firm were not liable for the pension fund withdrawal...more

Dechert LLP

Some Less Egregious Aggregation? – First Circuit Reverses the District Court in Sun Capital Partners

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The recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the Sun Capital Partners case may allay some of the concerns that private-equity and other investment funds that acquire or invest in portfolio...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Appellate Court Reverses District Court’s Finding Private Equity Funds Liable for Portfolio Company’s Withdrawal Liability on...

On November 22, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund (1st Cir., No. 16-1376, Nov. 22, 2019) (“Sun Capital IV”)...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Finally! First Circuit Overturns the Sun Capital ERISA Multiemployer Plan Liability Case—But Risks Remain for Private Equity

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The First Circuit issued a decision holding that two private equity funds involved in a case are not required to pay for the withdrawal limit of a portfolio company. Despite the limited victory, the guiding rule with respect...more

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Sun Capital Update: First Circuit Reverses District Court’s “Partnership-in-Fact” Holding and Finds Private Equity Funds Not Part...

Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that two co-investing Sun Capital private equity funds (the Sun Funds) had not created an implied “partnership-in-fact” for purposes of determining whether...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Structuring Private Equity Deals in 2017: Considerations for Buyers While They Wait for the Sun Capital Appeals to Play Out

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Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund has been analyzed extensively over the past four years, as it has made its way from the US District Court for the District of...more

Dechert LLP

More Egregious Aggregation Under ERISA in the Sun Capital Partners Case? The District Court Goes Down Yet Another Road

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The recent opinion by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the Sun Capital Partners case may be troubling to private equity funds and...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Sun Capital Court Finds that Common Industry Practices Exposed PE Funds to Pension Plan Liabilities

A group of related private equity (“PE”) funds were found liable for a bankrupt portfolio company’s pension plan debts in the latest and most worrisome decision in the long-running Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Investment Plus Partnership-in-Fact = Withdrawal Liability

Previously, we wrote about the First Circuit decision that a private equity fund constituted a “trade or business” under ERISA as amended by the Multeimployer Pension Plan Amendments Act (“MPPAA”). That dry description is...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Current Structuring May Not Shield Private Equity Firms from ERISA Liabilities

On March 28, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts held that two private equity funds within Sun Capital were jointly and severally liable under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Pension Plan Withdrawal Liability Imposed on Investor Private Equity Funds

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The latest decision in the series of Sun Capital cases was released on March 28, 2016, by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Indus....more

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Casting a Wider Net: Court Finds Private Equity Funds Liable for ERISA Withdrawal Liability

On March 28, 2016, a district court in Massachusetts found two private equity funds (under the Sun Capital Partners, Inc. umbrella) jointly and severally liable for withdrawal liability imposed on one of its underlying...more

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