Lanie Halpern Joins Morrison Cohen
Morrison Cohen welcomes Associate Lanie Halpern, who joins the firm in our Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Practice. Lanie advises clients on an array of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including those arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions.
Lanie counsels clients on compensation and benefits structures, including the design and implementation of equity and non-equity incentive arrangements, with a focus on stock, stock option and profits interest programs. She regularly drafts and negotiates executive employment, separation and severance, change-in-control, retention, non-competition, non-solicitation and other compensation-related agreements and arrangements. In addition, Lanie advises on the impact of Sections 280G and 409A of the Internal Revenue Code and compensation-related securities regulations affecting businesses and individuals.
Prior to joining Morrison Cohen, Lanie was an associate in the Executive Compensation Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and her B.S., cum laude, from New York University.
“We are thrilled that Lanie is joining our growing Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Department, where she will add a depth to our practice. Her experience meshes perfectly with our sophisticated and practical approach to executive compensation and employee benefits matters,” said Jeff Laska, partner and chair of Morrison Cohen’s Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Practice. “We are delighted to welcome her to the firm.”
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Lanie.
Contacts
- Lanie Halpern Associate
- lhalpern@morrisoncohen.com
Related Practices
Our Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Practice represents companies and individuals in virtually all aspects of the employment relationship and in a wide variety of industries. We provide strategic advice and offer creative, commercial solutions designed to achieve favorable outcomes for our clients.
Employees are a company’s most important asset, and our lawyers provide comprehensive advice to a wide variety of companies as to all facets of their compensation and benefits matters. Our abilities allow our clients to attract, retain and incentivize their employees and protect their commercial interests.
Working together with our Corporate Department, our attorneys assist the firm’s clients in solving a myriad of executive compensation and benefits issues that arise in connection with our firm’s robust transactional practice.
