Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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Latham & Watkins LLP is recognized as a powerhouse in the employee benefits and executive compensation market. The team offers strength across its Northern and Southern California offices. The practitioners provide comprehensive advice and representation to their clients and play a key role in big-ticket corporate transactions. The firm possesses impressive national and cross-border capabilities.
Work Highlights
- Latham advised the healthcare company Grail on the employee benefits and compensation aspects of its $48 billion acquisition by Illumina.
Strengths
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"The service is always excellent - thoughtful, pragmatic and well grounded with what we are seeing in the market. It goes beyond just legal advice to provide a holistic view on how to approach tricky executive compensation issues."
"The Latham team has deep expertise and practical experience. They are strong business advisers and are able to provide effective guidance in making decisions rather than just explaining the law."
"I find their service to be excellent and their responsiveness to be fast and reliable."
"The service is always excellent - thoughtful, pragmatic and well grounded with what we are seeing in the market. It goes beyond just legal advice to provide a holistic view on how to approach tricky executive compensation issues."
"The Latham team has deep expertise and practical experience. They are strong business advisers and are able to provide effective guidance in making decisions rather than just explaining the law."
"I find their service to be excellent and their responsiveness to be fast and reliable."
Notable Practitioners
David Taub is highly respected for his specialist handling of the employee benefit and executive compensation elements of corporate transactions.
"David is very knowledgeable and has a great demeanor for this work."
"David takes the time to explain issues as many times as you need. He is very knowledgeable and is a very good resource overall."
"He is a great subject matter expert who explains topics very well."
Laurence Seymour acts on the implementation of compensation arrangements for public and private company clients, as well as on benefits arrangements connected with corporate transactions.
"His depth of knowledge in this area is incredible."
"Larry couples excellent experience, advice and service with a strong commercial sense."
"Laurence is very commercial and well respected. He is a leader in the field."
James Metz is skilled at representing clients in the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of M&A transactions.
"James's subject matter knowledge is very high; he is well connected in the space and knows it very well. He is very helpful and often able to respond very quickly."
Julie Crisp has a burgeoning practice in the space. She is held in high regard for her ability to provide counsel on a wide spectrum of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
"Julie helps us set up best practices over a wide variety of issues."
"She is really responsive and always understands the issues. She is always very patient with us and very pleasant to work with."
"She has strong subject matter expertise, meaning we really trust her to handle complex work for us."
Maj Vaseghi is an accomplished lawyer specializing in employee benefits and executive compensation issues and is particularly active in handling sizable corporate transactions.
"Maj an incredible partner to our team. She so capably weaves her expertise into our work. I know I will always get a thoughtful, practical and workable answer from Maj."
"Maj always provides excellent service with her delivery always appropriately tailored to the individual and audience."
"She does an excellent job handling complex and sophisticated matters for us. She is very responsive and a pleasure to work with."
Michelle Carpenter has a strong track record of handling high-value M&A and IPOs, assisting with the full range of employee benefits and executive compensation issues.
"She is a trusted resource who is very business-oriented and holistic in her view."
"She is a very strong and capable practitioner who can handle sophisticated questions."