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Areas of Practice
Experience
Alicia McCarthy is Counsel and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits group. Her principal focus is on ERISA’s fiduciary rules and the investment of plan assets. She provides ERISA advice to private equity, distressed debt, mezzanine, real estate and hedge funds. Ms. McCarthy has represented numerous sponsors including JP Morgan Investment Management, Kelso & Company, Morgan Stanley, Oaktree Capital Management, Prudential and Providence Equity Partners. On the investor side, she counsels fiduciaries to pension trusts including the Chrysler LLC Master Retirement Trust and General Electric Pension Trust with respect to investments and investment management arrangements. Ms. McCarthy also advises clients with respect to executive compensation and employee benefit matters involving mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy reorganizations, financings, litigation as well as plan compliance.
Ms. McCarthy is a frequent author and speaker on ERISA topics. She recently co-authored the articles “Minding the (Funding) Gap: Trouble Ahead for Multi-Player Plans,” Private Equity Manager, (January 2010) and “The Unthinkable: Private Equity Fund Found Liable for Pensions,” The M&A Lawyer, (August 2008). She is the recipient of a 2010 and 2011 Pro Bono Publico Award for her services to The Legal Aid Society. Ms. McCarthy is also a member of the Committee on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Ms. McCarthy joined Debevoise in 1999. She received her B.A. in 1981 from Georgetown University and her J.D. cum laude in 1984 from Brooklyn Law School, where she worked on the Journal of International Law. Ms. McCarthy is the author of Case Digest, “Gibbons v. Udaras na Gaeltachta”, 10 Brooklyn J. Int’l L. 255 (1984).
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Bar Admissions
New York
Education
Brooklyn Law School, 1984, J.D.
Georgetown University, 1981, B.A.
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