Lindsay Davis Murphy
Partner
Overview
Lindsay D. Murphy is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office, where she focuses her practice on advising public and private companies on all aspects of design and operation of executive compensation arrangements and employee benefit plans. Ms. Murphy routinely counsels clients on employee benefit plans and executive compensation matters related to corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings.
In addition, Ms. Murphy has extensive experience advising private equity clients with day-to-day equity compensation arrangements and executive employment agreements, including within the context of new portfolio company acquisitions, add-on acquisitions and exit transactions, and transactions involving Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).
Ms. Murphy's practice also encompasses assisting clients with Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) reporting and disclosure obligations, as well as U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), IRS and PBGC audits and investigations of employee benefit plans. Additionally, Ms. Murphy advises public companies regarding U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosures of executive and director compensation arrangements.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Murphy was an attorney for a multinational law firm in its Dallas office.
Representative Experience
- Represented a private equity sponsor in the initial public offering (IPO) of a portfolio company raising $238 million (with a market cap of $1.58 billion)
- Represented a private equity sponsor and more than 30 of its middle-market portfolio companies for executive compensation and employee benefit matters, including in the context of new portfolio company acquisitions, add-on acquisitions and exit transactions
- Represented a private equity sponsor in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a global leader and provider of advanced machine tool, manufacturing and workholding solutions out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Represented an electric company in its $18 billion sale to an energy company
- Represented a public company that is a leader in lease-to-own appliances, furniture and other home goods in its take-private acquisition by a venture capital firm
- Represented a large national paint company in its $11.3 billion acquisition of one of the largest paint and coatings companies in the world
- Represented a global company specializing in motion and control technologies in its $4.3 billion acquisition of a manufacturer of filtration systems
- Advised a telecommunications company in the divestiture of its cloud and managed hosting service business to a multinational technology company
- Represented an ESOP trustee and independent fiduciary in connection with an ESOP-owned company's $500 million initial public offering (IPO)
- Represented an ESOP-owned company in connection with a stock sale to a strategic buyer
Credentials
- University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
- University of Mississippi, M.S., summa cum laude
- University of Mississippi, B.A., Accountancy, cum laude
- Texas
- Dallas Bar Association, Entertainment, Art and Sports Law Section, 2023-Present
- Employee Benefits/Executive Compensation Section, Officer, 2017-2020; Speakers Committee, 2011-2016