Austin Lilling

A partner in the labor, employment & benefits practice, Austin Lilling focuses his practice on executive compensation arrangements and employee benefit plans. He counsels senior executives, management teams, boards, key stakeholders, and employers on the design, negotiation, implementation, and administration of employment agreements; severance agreements; change in control arrangements; corporate and partnership equity and phantom equity compensation arrangements; qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans; welfare plans; retention; incentive; and other compensation and benefits arrangements.

He has substantial knowledge of ERISA, corporate, and tax issues relating to benefits and compensation arrangements, including under Internal Revenue Code Sections 409A, 457A, 162(m), 280G, and 83, and strives to maximize tax efficiency and avoid the potential for punitive tax consequences for clients.

Austin advises on benefits, compensation, and employee matters in transactional settings, including in private and public mergers and acquisitions, financial restructurings, and investment fund acquisitions and dispositions, and has significant experience representing various parties to such transactions. He has been involved with many of the country’s most significant financial restructurings.

To learn more about Austin and his experience, please go to: https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/austinlilling

New York University School of Law, 2001, LL.M.

Seton Hall University School of Law, 2000, J.D.

Emory University, 1997, B.A.