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Practice Expertise
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
Areas of Practice
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Executive Compensation / Employee Benefits
Profile
Emilie’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements (including their related tax, accounting, securities and corporate governance aspects).
Relevant Experience
Corporate Representation: Advises private and publicly traded clients and their boards of directors on compensation and benefits matters, including:
- Drafting and maintaining equity, phantom equity and cash bonus plans
- Drafting CD&As
- Addressing issues under applicable federal securities laws
- Advising pre-IPO companies on their compensation arrangements
- Drafting executive agreements and severance agreements
Transactions: Advises clients on compensation and benefit issues associated with corporate transactions, including:
- Tailoring of transaction documents
- Addressing incentive and retention issues
- Performing Section 280G analysis and associated benchmarking
- Drafting 280G shareholder cleansing vote documents
Section 409A: Assists clients in compliance with all aspects of Section 409A and its application to traditional non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements, equity plans, employment and severance arrangements, bonus arrangements and reimbursement arrangements
ESOPs: Assists business owners in sale of stock to an employee stock ownership plan for various purposes, including business financing, seller deferral of capital gains taxes and implementation of succession strategies
Executive Representation: Represents executives in negotiations of their hiring or termination of employment
Bar Admissions
Education
LLM Taxation, New York University School of Law, 2019JD, Tulane University Law School, 2016BA, Louisiana State University, 2013
Areas of Practice
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Executive Compensation / Employee Benefits
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