Michelle Lara joins DLA Piper's Employment practice in San Diego
04/28/2021
Michelle Lara joins DLA Piper's Employment practice in San Diego
Summary: Michelle Lara handles a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters for a wide variety of clients, from large, publicly traded corporations to startup companies.
DLA Piper announced today that Michelle Lara has joined the firm’s Employment practice as a partner in San Diego.
Michelle Lara handles a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters for a wide variety of clients, from large, publicly traded corporations to startup companies. She provides comprehensive advice with respect to the design, implementation and administration of stock option and other equity-based incentive plans, cash incentive plans, executive employment and severance arrangements, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, health and welfare benefit plans and tax-qualified retirement plans. She has extensive experience advising clients on these matters in mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, initial public offerings and other complex corporate transactions.
“Michelle brings several decades of cutting-edge experience advising on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation issues. Adding Michelle to our existing team strengthens our ability to meet the high demand from clients – both in California and across the country – for sophisticated guidance on complex benefits and compensation matters,” said Brian Kaplan, global co-chair and US chair of DLA Piper’s Employment practice.
“Michelle’s deep transactional experience, which includes advising on hundreds of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other corporate transactions, strongly complements our existing practice and capabilities as the firm’s Corporate, Capital Markets and Private Equity practices continue to grow,” said Rita Patel, chair of the firm’s US Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice.
“I enjoy finding practical solutions for clients to address the competing considerations involved in the design and administration of their executive compensation and employee benefit programs, including addressing the complexities arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other transformative transactions, and I am thrilled to be joining such a strong Employment practice at DLA Piper,” Michelle Lara said.
Michelle Lara joins from Cooley LLP. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Michelle Lara joins DLA Piper's Employment practice in San Diego
Summary: Michelle Lara handles a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters for a wide variety of clients, from large, publicly traded corporations to startup companies.
Michelle Lara handles a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters for a wide variety of clients, from large, publicly traded corporations to startup companies. She provides comprehensive advice with respect to the design, implementation and administration of stock option and other equity-based incentive plans, cash incentive plans, executive employment and severance arrangements, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, health and welfare benefit plans and tax-qualified retirement plans. She has extensive experience advising clients on these matters in mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, initial public offerings and other complex corporate transactions.
“Michelle brings several decades of cutting-edge experience advising on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation issues. Adding Michelle to our existing team strengthens our ability to meet the high demand from clients – both in California and across the country – for sophisticated guidance on complex benefits and compensation matters,” said Brian Kaplan, global co-chair and US chair of DLA Piper’s Employment practice.
“Michelle’s deep transactional experience, which includes advising on hundreds of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other corporate transactions, strongly complements our existing practice and capabilities as the firm’s Corporate, Capital Markets and Private Equity practices continue to grow,” said Rita Patel, chair of the firm’s US Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice.
“I enjoy finding practical solutions for clients to address the competing considerations involved in the design and administration of their executive compensation and employee benefit programs, including addressing the complexities arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other transformative transactions, and I am thrilled to be joining such a strong Employment practice at DLA Piper,” Michelle Lara said.
Michelle Lara joins from Cooley LLP. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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