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