Emily Jordan advises public and privately held companies on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), securities law, and tax law aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits to ensure compliance in the ordinary course of business and when engaging in corporate transactions. Emily’s practice encompasses designing, negotiating, implementing, and maintaining equity compensation arrangements, cash-based incentive compensation arrangements, retirement plans, deferred compensation plans, executive employment agreements, severance agreements, and change-of-control agreements.
Emily regularly assesses compensation and benefits-related liability and risks for clients in corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, sales and spin-offs, assists private equity clients with compensation packages for executives and employees of portfolio companies, and advises public companies on compensation-related public disclosure rules, including drafting and reviewing their public filings. She also has experience working with deferred compensation plans under Section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code for governmental and certain nongovernmental clients.
In law school, Emily served as a senior editor for the Boston College Law Review and worked as a student attorney in the Community Enterprise Clinic where she advised small businesses on transactional matters.