Sheri P Adler

Career

Sheri advises boards, compensation committees, and companies on executive and director compensation matters. She designs and documents equity incentives, cash bonus arrangements, employee stock purchase plans, and deferred compensation plans. Sheri also negotiates individual contractual arrangements with C-suite executives, including employment, retention, change in control, severance, and separation agreements.

Sheri is particularly experienced in working with public companies, guiding her clients at the intersection of complex securities, disclosure, tax, and governance frameworks. She provides extensive support to public companies each year in connection with their proxy statements for annual shareholder meetings, and helps them navigate a constantly evolving disclosure landscape.

Additionally, Sheri supports clients on the employee benefits and compensation aspects of their key transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financing events, spinoffs, divestitures, and initial public offerings.

Sheri plays an active role within the firm, where she serves in a professional development leadership role and is a co-founder of a cross-collaborative group comprised of executive compensation and securities attorneys.

Sheri frequently writes and speaks on executive compensation topics. She has been a panelist at events hosted by the Practising Law Institute and National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (Philadelphia Chapter), and a guest on podcasts for TheCorporateCounsel.net and CompensationStandards.com.