Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
USA Guide 2024 : Texas: Houston & Surrounds
Band 1
About
Provided by Baker Botts L.L.P.
Employee benefits & executive compensation packages are essential in attracting and maintaining talent for any company. Baker Botts’ proven experience enables our lawyers to assist clients with all legal and operational aspects of their executive compensation and employee benefit plan arrangements. Our advocacy efforts and leadership roles in various benefits-related organizations and experience with regulators allow us to give timely advice based on “real world” current issues and developments.
Clients of our Employee Benefits practice cover the entire business spectrum, and range from small, privately held entities offering a limited number of benefit programs to large publicly-traded, multi-national employers who offer employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements. Our lawyers recognize and adapt to the variety of client needs based on the particular circumstances and types of benefit programs. Our Executive Compensation practice has broad experience with corporate transactions and related executive compensation and employee benefit issues.
We have broad experience in the fiduciary aspects of maintaining employee benefit plans. We represent employers and other fiduciaries in benefits claims litigation, benefit entitlement claims, fiduciary breach allegations, and defending employers and plans in disputes over entitlement to plan assets.
To learn more about our practice, please visit: www.bakerbotts.com/services/practice-areas/tax/employee-benefits
Chambers Review
Baker Botts L.L.P. is a leading firm with a strong reputation for its employee benefits and executive compensation practice. The team is noted for its expertise in transaction-related compensation and benefits matters as well as ERISA. It counsels Fortune 500 companies on equity incentive arrangements as well as the compensation and benefits aspects of corporate transactions. The department is particularly active on behalf of clients in the energy and natural resources sector.
Work Highlights
- Baker Botts advised Sunnova Energy Corporation on its executive and incentive compensation arrangements, including advice on the benefit terms of a Preliminary Offering Circular and the design of new equity awards, among other matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The firm provides expert opinions, timely responses and outstanding work."
"The service is professional and high-quality. They are true advisers."
"The team is very competent and they always have an expert we can go to."
"The firm provides expert opinions, timely responses and outstanding work."
"The service is professional and high-quality. They are true advisers."
"The team is very competent and they always have an expert we can go to."
Notable Practitioners
Gail Stewart frequently assists clients with high-profile corporate transactions, advising on the full gamut of issues involving executive compensation and employee benefit plans.
"Gail is responsive and very pleasant to work with. She understands where her clients are coming from and she is able to anticipate their needs."
"She is very thoughtful and knowledgeable."
"Gail is phenomenal."
Ranked Lawyers at
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Texas: Houston & Surrounds
Members
Provided by Baker Botts L.L.P.
David Schiller
Gabriela Alvarez
Jason Loden
Head of Department
Head of Department