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, qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, executive employment agreements, severance agreements, and change-of-control agreements.
Emily counsels clients across a range of industries, including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and financial services. She regularly performs due diligence and assesses compensation and benefits-related liability and risks for clients in corporate transactions, assists private equity clients with compensation packages for executives and employees of portfolio companies, and drafts and reviews compensation-related public filings for public company clients. As a part of the firm’s cross-practice employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) team, Emily works with clients to implement and maintain ESOPs, representing companies, selling shareholders, internal ESOP trustees, and external ESOP trustees in transactions as well as in ongoing compliance matters.
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. Additionally, Emily interned for Justice Clint Bolick of the Arizona Supreme Court.