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Josh focuses his practice on advising public and private companies, and private equity clients, in financial and strategic merger and acquisition transactions and executive compensation matters, as well as assisting asset management clients with the structuring, implementation, and administration of carried interest and “phantom” carried interest programs.

Last May, we provided a client alert about a recent federal district court case (Spence v. American Airlines, No. 4:23-cv-00552-O, 2025 WL 225127, at *2 (N.D. Tex. Jan. 10, 2025)), in which a plan sponsor and certain plan fiduciaries were found to have breached their ERISA fiduciary duty of loyalty based primarily on conduct related to proxy voting of securities held in certain of the 401(k) plans’ investment funds. At that time, the court left open the question of whether the breach resulted in any damages to the participants.