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Practice Expertise
- Corporate
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
Areas of Practice
- Corporate
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Emerging Growth and Venture Capital
- Executive Compensation / Employee Benefits
- Tax View More
Profile
Emily’s legal practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements (including their related tax, accounting, securities and corporate governance aspects).
Representative 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 and state securities laws
- Addressing listing requirements under NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges
- Advising on institutional shareholder expectations and requirements
- Advising pre-IPO companies on their compensation arrangements
- Advising on various tax issues relating to equity compensation and performing 162(m) analyses
- Drafting employment agreements and severance agreements
Transactions: Advises clients on compensation and benefit issues associated with corporate transactions, including:
- Tailoring of transaction documents
- Drafting option cancellation/assumption agreements and inducement plans
- Addressing incentive and retention issues
- Performing Section 280G analyses and associated benchmarking
Section 409A: Helps clients comply 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
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, California Law Review, Editor, 2012AB, Harvard University, cum laude, 2003
Areas of Practice
- Corporate
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Emerging Growth and Venture Capital
- Executive Compensation / Employee Benefits
- Tax
Professional Career
Articles
- Mitigating the Impact of the 280G Golden Parachute Rules, Executive Compensation Practical Pointers
- Conserving Equity Plan Share Reserves After M&A Transactions, Executive Compensation Practical Pointers
- CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure: What We’ve Seen in Filings So Far, Executive Compensation Practical Pointers
- Director Equity Award Limit in LTIPs: How Companies are Addressing it this Proxy Season in Light of Recent Delaware Case Law, Executive Compensation Practical Pointers
- Six Key Considerations: Executive Contract Negotiations, Straightline
Blogs
C-Suite Compensation Center
C-Suite Compensation
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