Sarah Downie
USA Guide 2024
Band 4 : Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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Sarah Downie is an Executive Compensation & Benefits partner in Weil’s Tax Department and is based in New York. Sarah advises clients on all aspects of compensation and employee benefits. Sarah has extensive experience in the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of mergers, acquisitions and financings. She represents senior executives and companies in the negotiation and drafting of employment and severance agreements. She also advises as to the design and operation of executive and employee benefit arrangements including equity compensation and cash incentive plans, change in control and retention arrangements and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Sarah advises clients on pension plan investment and compliance with ERISA’s fiduciary obligations and prohibited transaction rules. She regularly counsels private fund sponsors in connection with ERISA’s “plan asset” regulations and with VCOC, REOC and similar issues.
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Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 1995).
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Sarah Downie has considerable expertise in the compensation and benefits considerations of M&A and financing transactions.
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