Kimberly Franko Lower

Kim is trusted counsel to public and private multinational companies, as well as private equity funds, on all the labor, employment and immigration issues arising out of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and other major corporate transactions. She assists her clients on strategic workforce planning, including interdisciplinary, comprehensive analysis of the best methods to expand in new jurisdictions and to engage talent, as well as, supporting transfers for employment and engagement between different corporate entities.

In addition, Kim helps clients manage multinational workforces, accounting for geopolitical risk, increasing worker protections and new challenges in the ID&E landscape. Kim also advises multinational clients with respect to the negotiation and drafting of executive and senior-level employment, consulting, separation and restrictive covenant agreements in compliance with local law.

We are the only law firm to be ranked Band 1 by Chambers Global for Employment. We combine our global coverage and wealth of experience handling multijurisdictional assignments with specialized local expertise, enabling us to work across borders, industries and practice areas to fulfill clients' labor and employment needs everywhere they operate.

• 65 Equity Partners in its minority investment in Kendra Scott Design, Inc.
• Accel-KKR in its acquisition of Accertify from American Express.
• Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. in its USD 185 million 363 asset sale to Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA.
• Affirm Holdings, Inc. in numerous acquisitions and strategic transactions.
• Becton, Dickinson and Company in its USD 4.2 billion acquisition of Edwards Lifesciences' Critical Care business.
• Calera Capital in its acquisition of Nocturne Luxury Villas, Inc.
• Embracer Group in its acquisition of game developer Limited Run Games, acquisition of game developer Tripwire (Killing Floor and Rising Storm) and sale of Shiver gaming studio to Nintendo.
• Evident Scientific as international counsel in the global carve-out sale of its Inspection Technologies division to Wabtec Corp.
• Haier Smart Home in its USD 640 million acquisition of Carrier Refrigeration Benelux B.V. (Carrier Commercial Refrigeration).
• hearX, maker of Lexie hearing aids on its merger with Eargo, forming a new company called LXE Hearing.
• Highlander Partners, L.P. in multiple acquisitions including, DZYNE Technologies, Liteye Systems, Inc., and Black Sage Technologies.
• Instacart on its acquisition of Wymshop.
• LiveRamp in its acquisition of Habu.
• New Water Capital on its acquisition of Dutch Gold Honey.
• Owens Corning in the global carve-out sale of its glass reinforcements business to Praana Group.
• Safran in its acquisition of Collins Aerospace's high-technology actuation and flight control activities in a cash offer based on a USD 1.8 billion enterprise value.
• Snowflake in numerous transactions, including its USD 800 million acquisition of Streamlit.
• Thoma Bravo and its portfolio companies as international counsel on a series of carve-outs and cross-border transactions.
• Xperi Holding Corporation in its acquisition of Vewd Software Holding Limited.