# Executive Compensation Associate

**Company**: Sterlington PLLC
**Location**: Dover, Delaware
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Sterlington PLLC, a full-service law firm specialising in complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth matters, seeks an Executive Compensation Associate to work directly with two market-leading Executive Compensation partners. The successful candidate will advise on executive compensation and employee benefits issues central to complex corporate transactions and sensitive executive matters.

Responsibilities include:

- Advising on executive compensation and employee benefits issues in connection with M&A, private equity transactions, IPOs, joint ventures, and restructurings

- Counseling founders, CEOs, senior executives, and boards on executive employment and retention agreements, equity incentive and carried interest structures, deferred compensation and incentive arrangements, change-in-control and termination protections, and performance-based compensation design

- Providing strategic guidance on tax and ERISA considerations, including equity compensation and nonqualified deferred compensation programs

- Supporting compensation aspects of complex and often confidential corporate events

Requirements:

- 4–8 years of executive compensation and employee benefits experience

- Experience at an Am Law 50 or comparably sophisticated practice preferred

- Strong experience in transaction-related compensation matters

- Excellent technical skills in tax and ERISA aspects of executive compensation

- Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-level advisory environment

Benefits:

- Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans

- 401(k)-retirement program

## Skills

### Required
- Executive Compensation
- Employee Benefits
- M&A
- Private Equity
- IPOs
- Tax
- ERISA

### Nice to have
- Am Law 50 experience
- Transaction-related compensation matters

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