Jesner, Lisa Rothman
Lisa Rothman Jesner is an associate in the New York office of Jones Day in the employee benefits and executive compensation group. Her practice includes counseling clients on benefits and compensation issues, and on matters that arise in the course of corporate transactions and restructurings.
Ms. Rothman Jesner has counseled clients on various aspects of bankruptcy matters, including negotiations and litigation with the PBGC and establishment of VEBAs in connection with modification of retiree benefits in bankruptcy. She also has experience designing, drafting and implementing compensation programs for senior management of distressed companies. She has represented debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, including Copperweld, Kaiser Aluminum, WHX Corporation, Williams Communications, Globalstar and Dana Corporation.
Ms. Rothman Jesner received her bachelors cum laude from Brandeis University in 1995, and her JD cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999. She held a leadership position on the employee benefits and executive compensation committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA and from 2003 through 2006 co-authored the ERISA litigation chapter for the ABA Annual Review of Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation.
Hagen, Daniel C.
Daniel C. Hagen is a partner in the Cleveland office of Jones Day and chairs the firm¿s employee benefits and executive compensation practice. He advises Jones Day clients on all aspects of their executive compensation and employee benefits programs, with special emphasis on restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and executive compensation programs and agreements.
Mr. Hagen's experience in bankruptcy and other restructuring matters has covered the full range of benefits and compensation issues that need to be handled in those settings, including terminations of defined benefit and pension plans, negotiations with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the redesign or elimination of retiree welfare benefits and the design and implementation of compensation programs for debtors and reorganized companies. Representative bankruptcy proceedings in which he has been involved include Burlington Industries, Oglebay Norton, Elder-Beerman, Laidlaw, Teleglobe, Fruehauf Trailer Corporation and Prestolite. Mr. Hagen also has advised numerous clients on their purchases of businesses from debtors in bankruptcy proceedings, and has dealt with bankruptcy related issues for controlled group affiliates of debtors and companies undergoing restructurings, including private equity and venture capital funds.
Mr. Hagen is a member of the American Bar Association (business law and taxation sections). He has spoken and written on employee benefits and executive compensation topics on many occasions.
Mr. Hagen received his B.A. from Baldwin-Wallace College, summa cum laude, in 1977 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Law Review, in 1980. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and in Chambers USA (America¿s Leading Lawyers for Business), and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Baldwin-Wallace College.
Eschbach-Hall, Tricia
Tricia Eschbach-Hall is an associate in the Cleveland office of Jones Day and practices in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. She counsels clients on the administration and legal compliance of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, welfare benefit plans, and compensation programs.
Ms. Eschbach-Hall has considerable experience providing advice to distressed employers with respect to the benefits and compensation issues raised during corporate reorganizations. She has provided benefits-specific advice in several bankruptcy proceedings, including Oglebay Norton Company, LTV Corporation, Teleglobe and as counsel to the official Retiree Committee of Tower Automotive, Inc. In addition, she has counseled several clients with respect to the special employee benefits issues related to their purchase of assets from debtors in bankruptcy proceedings.
Ms. Eschbach-Hall received her B.A. from Kenyon College (cum laude) in 1996 and her J.D. (with honors) in 1999 from The Ohio State University, where she was a Managing Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal.
Cornell, John R
John R. Cornellis a partner in the New York office of Jones Day. He advises Jones Day clients on all aspects of their executive compensation and employee benefits programs. With more than 35 years of experience, he provides both balanced judgment and technical guidance on the most difficult business and legal issues that employers face in designing and administering benefits and compensation programs and in managing those programs through business and regulatory change.
Mr. Cornell routinely handles the benefits and compensation issues arising in bankruptcy matters when corporations prepare for, enter, and emerge from chapter 11 proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code. His experience includes termination of underfunded defined benefit plans and retiree welfare plans and related negotiations with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, creditor groups, and other stakeholders. He is also involved in designing and implementing compensation and retention programs covering key executives and other senior management of companies in financial distress. He has been and is involved in the negotiation, establishment and funding of voluntary employees¿ beneficiary associations (VEBAs) for union represented retirees and nonrepresented retirees for the provision of health, disability and life insurance benefits. These VEBAs involve legacy liabilities in the automotive, steel, aluminum and rubber industries. He has been involved in a number of bankruptcy proceedings, including LTV Corporation, Copperweld, Bethlehem Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, WHX Corporation, Williams Communications, Tower Automotive and Dana Corporation.
Mr. Cornell is a member of the ABA (business law and taxation sections) and the Maine State Bar Association. He has lectured on ERISA fiduciary issues and pension, welfare, and bankruptcy compensation issues, and has written on ERISA litigation and fiduciary issues and benefits in bankruptcy proceedings.
A trustee emeritus of Colby College, Mr. Cornell formerly served as an overseer and as president and chair of the College's Alumni Association. He is a former trustee and treasurer of the Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, where he chaired its financial committee. He currently is a member of the National Council of the Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.).
Mr. Cornell is admitted in New York and Maine. He received bachelors and masters (hon.) degrees from Colby College in 1965 and 1997, respectively. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1968, where he was an Executive Editor of the Law Journal, and he received an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1972.
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