Regina Olshan

Ms. Olshan has counseled on tax laws (including laws governing deferred compensation, golden parachute arrangements and deduction limitation rules), securities laws (including reporting and disclosure requirements and registration issues) and compensation-related litigation matters.

In addition, Ms. Olshan regularly advises public companies, boards, private equity clients and members of management on executive compensation and benefits issues arising in the context of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, initial public offerings, restructurings and other extraordinary corporate events, including private equity and leveraged buyout transactions, as well as on ESG-related matters. She also regularly advises large public companies and individual senior executives on the adoption, revision, and negotiation of executive employment and severance agreements, as well as litigation and controversies involving executive compensation.

Ms. Olshan is the author and editor of the Section 409A Handbook. She speaks and writes frequently on executive compensation issues, co-chairs “Hot Issues in Executive Compensation,” an annual executive compensation conference presented by PLI, and is on the Bloomberg BNA Pensions and Benefits Advisory Board and Bloomberg BNA Compensation Planning Advisory Board. She also has been quoted in various major publications on significant executive compensation issues of the day.

Ms. Olshan was named a 2022 Employment Law Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and is ranked in the top tier in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for New York employee benefits and executive compensation. She also is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 U.S., and was previously named a Benefits MVP by Law360 and Best Lawyers’ New York City Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Lawyer of the Year. Ms. Olshan also has been named in Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, including repeatedly as one of its Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers.