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Alan Levine

Alan Levine

USA 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

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Practice Areas

Alan Levine’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefits matters. He counsels companies in all facets of executive compensation and employee benefits matters as part of his general advisory and transactional practices, including negotiating employment arrangements, designing, and implementing incentive compensation plans (including carry and co-invest arrangements), evaluating non-competition and non-solicitation covenants, and addressing ERISA’s plan asset rules for private investment funds. He also represents private equity and venture sponsors and founders in the executive compensation and restrictive covenant aspects of GP stakes and seeding transactions, as well as executives and management teams of public and private companies in a variety of industries on their employment and equity arrangements, often in change of control situations. Alan uses a common sense, commercial approach to tackling clients’ executive compensation and employee benefits matters. An experienced practitioner with deep market knowledge, Alan is able to quickly identify critical issues, effectively communicate those issues to clients and opposing counsel, and provide constructive solutions. As a result, Alan’s clients have come to rely on him as a “first call” advisor on matters both within his specialties and outside of them.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Executive Compensation: Mainly Executive Representation - New York

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial
Alan Levine is well regarded for representing management teams and individual executives in connection with their employment and compensation arrangements. His experience includes advising on change of control matters.

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - New York

Band 5
Band 5

Individual Editorial
Alan Levine is well regarded for representing management teams and individual executives in connection with their employment and compensation arrangements. His experience includes advising on change of control matters.

Strengths

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  • His knowledge extends beyond the law and he is invaluable for negotiations and achieving the strategic aims of clients.

    Executive Compensation: Mainly Executive RepresentationChambers Guide to the USA

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California

California: Northern

California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surrou

District of Columbia

New York

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