Colleen Hart
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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About
Provided by Colleen Hart
Practice Areas
Colleen Hart is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group.
Colleen advises companies, executives and boards on complex executive compensation matters. She offers a multidisciplinary approach to compensation and benefits issues with a focus on tax planning, securities laws and corporate governance. Matters she handles include the negotiation, structuring and implementation of employment and change-in-control agreements and deferred compensation, equity and incentive compensation plans. She advises on golden parachute and deduction limitation rules, securities reporting, registration and disclosure requirements and California employment laws. In addition, Colleen has extensive experience advising clients on compensation and benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, bankruptcies and finance transactions.
Colleen is a contributing author of The 409A Handbook (BNA 2016) and lectures frequently on executive compensation matters. As a U.S. Navy veteran, Colleen devotes a substantial amount of time to organizations that provide legal and support services to U.S. veterans.
Chambers Review
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Colleen Hart advises on the drafting and negotiation of compensation and benefits plans pertaining to corporate transactions, counting private equity firms and their portfolio companies among her stable of clients.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Colleen is phenomenal. She is very sharp and technical."
"Colleen is terrific and great at what she does. She is extremely smart and experienced in addition to being a very strong advocate."
"We really appreciate partnering with Colleen. She is very experienced and good at diagnosing the situation."
"Colleen is phenomenal. She is very sharp and technical."
"Colleen is terrific and great at what she does. She is extremely smart and experienced in addition to being a very strong advocate."
"We really appreciate partnering with Colleen. She is very experienced and good at diagnosing the situation."