Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Cynthia Marian will be speaking at the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) Twenty-Fourth Annual Private Equity Forum on a panel titled "Upper-Tier Considerations" taking place on Friday, April 28 at 10:45 a.m. The panel will address how private equity firms structure their upper-tier arrangements, including different types of retention mechanisms; restrictive covenants; variability in compensation systems and how they relate to fund waterfalls; and various tax considerations relating to structuring a successful upper-tier entity.