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Ali Nardali

Ali Nardali

USA 2026

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Ali Nardali is a partner in the firm's Capital Markets practice group and is a member of the firm's public company Executive Compensation practice group. He regularly advises companies, boards, compensation committees, and senior executives on executive compensation matters, with specific focus on structure, governance, disclosure, and transition issues.

Ali previously took leave from the firm to lead the executive compensation legal function at a large US registrant, assisting the registrant with three CEO and two President transitions, as well as ongoing engagement with institutional stockholders and proxy advisory firms. A recognized leader in the field, Ali has advised senior members of the executive and legislative branches of the US government, as well as interested parties in many of the most significant and high-profile management compensation matters of the last two decades.

Ali has been cited by numerous publications and treatises, and recent articles by Ali have appeared in Bloomberg and Harvard Law School’s Forum on Corporate Governance, including the Forum’s seminal article on using cryptocurrencies as compensation.

Ali holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Yale Law Journal, and a B.A. in mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa and with highest distinction, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Publications

"Keeping Up With the Times: SEC Proposes to Modernize Ability of Companies to Grant Equity Compensation," JD Supra, December 2020

"An Early Holiday for Gig Workers: SEC Proposes to Expand Ability of Companies to Grant Equity Compensation to Gig Economy Workers," JD Supra, November 2020

"Stock Option Repricing Considerations During the Pandemic," Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, May 2020

Education

Yale Law School

J.D.

2007

University of North Carolina

B.A.

2004

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surrou

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Ali Nardali is recognized as a strong management compensation attorney, with good regulatory expertise.

Strengths

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  • Ali is responsive, thoughtful, proactive and remembers important details about our company.

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  • Ali always responds to our requests with practical advice. He is accommodating to our business needs and highly responsive.

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  • He is incredibly client-focused.

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District of Columbia

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Florida: South

Illinois

Massachusetts

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