SHAWN is a partner in our Silicon Valley office. Shawn specializes in executive compensation and employee benefits and her practice is focused on start?up, emerging growth and public companies, and venture and institutional investors.
Shawn is experienced in the design, review, and implementation of a wide range of benefit and compensation programs structured to suit emerging growth companies as well as other manufacturing and service businesses. She has special expertise in the tax, securities and accounting considerations applicable to these programs, with a particular emphasis on the unique issues faced by start-up and emerging growth companies. Shawn works with clients to structure compensation and benefit programs that cover the full range of equity and cash compensation arrangements, including stock option and stock purchase plans, 401(k) plans, ESOPs, cafeteria plans, and other fringe benefit arrangements. She also negotiates and prepares incentive, employment and severance arrangements, representing key employees as well as employers. Shawn works closely with our corporate lawyers on a variety of client matters. She is actively involved in the equity compensation, benefit and ERISA issues that arise in merger and acquisition transactions and securities offerings and has experience in the representation of companies in IRS and Department of Labor audits of retirement plans.
Before joining our firm, Shawn was a lawyer in the Menlo Park office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Shawn is a co-author of Executive Compensation for Emerging Companies. Shawn received a J.D. and L.L.M. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in Government from Harvard College. She is an active member of the California and Massachusetts State Bars. read more ...read less ...
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