Jarrett R. Hoffman is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Executive Compensation Department.  He advises companies, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, family offices and senior executives across all stages of the corporate and investment life cycle, drawing on extensive experience in the transactional and strategic aspects of executive compensation matters.

Mr. Hoffman regularly counsels boards of directors, compensation committees, management teams and individual executives on executive employment relationships and transitions, including change‑in‑control, retention and severance arrangements.

Mr. Hoffman has been consistently recognized by Chambers USA in the employee benefits and executive compensation category since 2019, with clients highlighting his strong commercial judgment and deep expertise.  He was named a Law360 “Rising Star” in 2021 (as one of the country’s top executive compensation lawyers under 40), recognized among the “Top Employment Lawyers in North America” by MergerLinks in 2024 and identified as a “Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer” by Lawdragon in 2026.

Mr. Hoffman received his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2005 and his LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2006.  He is active in a number of professional and community organizations, serving on the Board of Trustees of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, as a board member of the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park and on UJA’s Crisis to Stability Committee.

Select Recent Transactions (handled since joining Wachtell Lipton):

• Public Storage in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Public Storage Canada

Select Prior Transactions (handled prior to joining Wachtell Lipton): 

Public M&A

• Apollo Global Management in its $11 billion merger with Athene, its strategic investment in Motive Partners and its acquisition of Griffin Capital’s wealth-distribution and asset-management units
• Bioverativ in its $11.6 billion sale to Sanofi
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CBS in its $40 billion merger with Viacom
• CompoSecure in its business combination with Husky Technologies for an enterprise value of $7.4 billion
• CSRA in its $9.6 billion sale to General Dynamics
• The Special Committee of independent directors of Duck Creek in its $2.6 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners
• Eli Lilly in its up to $2.4 billion acquisition of Orna Therapeutics
• The Estée Lauder Companies in its $2.8 billion acquisition of Tom Ford
• Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute in the $2.49 billion all-cash sale of a majority stake in its internal business and administrative services, Community Oncology Revitalization Enterprise Ventures, to McKesson Corporation
• GE Capital in its sale of PK AirFinance
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
• IBM in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, $11 billion acquisition of Confluent, $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp, $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio and its acquisitions of Datastax, Instana, Neudesic and NS1, its sale of The Weather Company to Francisco Partners and the Sales Performance Management Solutions business and numerous private company acquisitions, global divestitures and outsourcing-related transactions, and Red Hat in its acquisitions of Neural Magic and StackRox
• ILG in its $4.7 billion sale to Marriott Vacations Worldwide
• The Kraft Heinz Company in its $3.2 billion sale of its natural, grated, cultured and specialty cheese businesses to Groupe Lactalis
• Merck in its $10.8 billion acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences
• MGM in its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon
• Qualcomm in connection with a $142 billion unsolicited offer from Broadcom and its acquisition of Atheros Communications
• Resolute Holdings in its acquisition of a majority interest in CompoSecure
• Taylor Morrison in its $2.4 billion acquisition of William Lyon Homes
• Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo Health
• WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa
• ZT Systems in its $4.9 billion sale to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Spin-Offs

• Barnes & Noble in the spin-off of Barnes & Noble Education
• CompoSecure in the spin-off of its subsidiary Resolute Holdings Management to form a differentiated alternative asset management platform
• General Electric in the spin-off of GE Healthcare
• Honeywell in the spin-off of its turbochargers business, Garrett Motion
• IBM in its spin-off of its managed infrastructure services business into Kyndryl

Take-Private Transactions

• 3G Capital in its $9 billion acquisition of Skechers and its $7.1 billion acquisition of a control position in Hunter Douglas
• Funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management in the $5.2 billion acquisition of Arconic and the $5.2 billion acquisition of Atlas Air Worldwide
• Ashton Kutcher in his investment in Soho House & Co., in connection with Soho House’s $2.7 billion take-private transaction
• Chico’s FAS in its $1 billion sale to Sycamore Partners
• Enstar Group in its $5.1 billion sale to Sixth Street and other institutional investors
• Envestnet in its $4.5 billion sale to Bain Capital
• Global Infrastructure Partners, alongside KKR, in their $15 billion acquisition of CyrusOne
• Secureworks in its $859 million all-cash take-private sale to Sophos
• The Special Committee of independent directors of Pattern Energy Group in its $6.1 billion acquisition by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• QTS Realty Trust in its $10 billion sale to Blackstone funds

Private M&A

• Funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management in the $5 billion acquisition of Verizon Media (Yahoo and AOL), subsequent sale of AOL to Bending Spoons, spin-off of its portfolio company Edgecast from Yahoo in Edgecast’s sale to Limelight Networks, and investment in Taboola, and the acquisitions of a majority stake in Novolex Holdings and Phoenix Services
• Authentic Brands Group in its acquisition of Sports Illustrated from Meredith Corporation
• Funds managed by affiliates of Berkshire Partners in their acquisitions of FoodChain ID and Harvey Performance Company, and the investment and subsequent sale of Mielle Organics to Procter & Gamble
• Collectors in its acquisition of Beckett
• Crestview in its sale of TenCate Grass
• Davidson Kempner Capital Management in the sale of Olympus Terminals to TPG Rise Climate
• Five Arrows in its investments in Springbrook and KEV Group
• Francisco Partners in its investment in GreenSlate
• General Atlantic in dozens of full, control and minority acquisition transactions, its sale of EngageSmart, its sale of EN Engineering, its sale of OneOcology and its IPO of European Wax Centers
• General Atlantic and its climate solutions investing venture BeyondNetZero, alongside other investors, in the $295 million investment in o9 Solutions
• General Atlantic in its strategic growth investments in GoodVets Group, Financial Information Technologies, Flint Group and Plusgrade
• Jet Edge in the sale of its private aviation services platform to Vista Global Holding
• Funds managed by affiliates of KPS in the $4.4 billion sale of Howden to Chart Industries and its acquisition, through a newly formed affiliate, of a controlling stake in Ketjen Corporation’s refining catalyst solutions business from Albemarle Corporation
• Marathon Health in its acquisition of Everside Health
• SOFIE Biosciences in its growth investment by Trilantic North America
• SVF Investment Corp. 3, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of SoftBank Investment Advisers, in its $5.5 billion merger with Symbotic
• TPG in its acquisition of G&A Partners
• Viking Global Investors in its investment in Rockefeller Capital Management
• Warburg Pincus in its $3.3 billion sale of TRC to WSP