Peter Daines
Employee Benefits Associate Attorney at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Role
- Employee Benefits Associate Attorney at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Location
- Arlington, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Peter Daines
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It\'s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn\'t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that\'s where you will find success.\"- Thomas J. Watson
Experience
Employee Benefits Associate Attorney
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Jul 2019 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Performed pension, 401(k), and executive compensation advisory work as well as deal support work. Represented former Fortune 500 company in negotiation of highly customized and groundbreaking $3B pension de-risking transaction, including drafting and negotiating novel and innovative contract features (such as that the insurer agreed to take on comprehensive risk relating to the pension plan and to conduct a lump sum window after buy-out, both of which were, to our knowledge, firsts in the industry) on an extremely accelerated and inflexible timetable.Advised multinational company in connection with groundbreaking $800 million pension de-risking transaction featuring highly customized and novel pricing structure (featuring both a buy-in period and an optional but pre-structured buy-out option, with a lump sum window in between, and with several pricing true-up events carefully negotiated to provide the client with both pricing certainty for accounting purposes and the best price available), and in-house counsel told partner they were particularly impressed with my contributions.Assisted Fortune 500 company with drafting and submission of a successful pension funding waiver application to the IRS, including direct negotiation with IRS representatives on an accelerated timetable, resulting in the deferral of hundreds of millions of dollars in pension liabilities in time to avoid incurring significant risk of penalty interest, and including subsequent negotiation with PBGC representatives relating to the collateral to be pledged in connection with the grant of the funding waiver.Assisted Fortune 500 company with navigation of a host of pension compliance issues triggered by a Chapter 11 restructuring.Assisted in the representation of Fortune 500 company in defending against litigation brought by a former independent contractor alleging millions of dollars in damages for decades of alleged miscategorization.
Education
Utah State University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Major: Law and Constitutional Studies; Minors: Sociology, Mathematics
2009 — 2013
Georgetown Law
LL.M. in Taxation
2016 — 2017
Georgetown Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
2014 — 2017
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