Ian Levin

Practice Areas

Partner in the firm’s M&A and Securities Group and Employment and Employee Benefits Group. Practice covers a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including the associated tax, securities, corporate, employment and labor issues. Ian’s practice routinely involves:

• Advising private and public companies, in particular private equity sponsors, regarding executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, joint ventures and other transactions

• Representing executives and management teams in negotiating employment and incentive compensation, particularly in connection with corporate transactions

• Advising clients as to the design and establishment of virtually all types of executive compensation, equity, deferred compensation and other benefit arrangements

• Advising companies and their boards regarding governance and disclosure requirements

• Representing lenders and borrowers in various corporate financing transactions

• Structuring private equity and hedge funds and other investments in compliance with ERISA

Serves as chair of the Advisory Board and chair of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice Advisory Board at the Emory University School of Law. He is an adjunct professor at New York Law School.

Personal

NYU School of Law (LL.M., 1994); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1992); Union College (B.A., 1989)