Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today that Kathleen Emberger has joined the firm’s New York office as counsel in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. In her new role, Ms. Emberger will make a significant contribution to the Group’s ability to provide senior-level advice in this important area of the firm’s transactions and advisory assignments.
Ms. Emberger brings to the firm a breadth of executive compensation experience, including advising on employment agreements and equity incentive arrangements, and representing clients on employment and executive compensation-related aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, for public company clients, Ms. Emberger has worked on a variety of SEC disclosure and governance matters related to benefits and compensation.
“Given the significant growth in the Debevoise transactional practice and our expectations for the future, Kathleen’s nuanced and multifaceted knowledge in the field will be an invaluable asset to the firm and its clients,” said Jonathan F. Lewis, Chair of the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group.
Ms. Emberger previously worked in the Executive Compensation and Benefits Group of another international law firm. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, and her J.D. and her LL.M. in Comparative and International Law from Duke University School of Law in 1998.
Debevoise’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group practices at the intersection of corporate governance, securities laws, tax, ERISA and an intricate matrix of labor and employment regimes, and it does so while grappling with some of the most sensitive and important issues in major corporate transactions. The Group’s experience is extremely broad, ranging from addressing the human resources and liability issues that arise in M&A transactions, to advising on critical aspects of corporate governance, to designing, negotiating and implementing employment contracts and short- and long-term compensation plans and programs, to navigating and developing creative solutions for the challenging ERISA issues that permeate Debevoise’s investment funds practice.
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