ExecutiveCompensationAssociate

Location: Remote Contract: Full-time Practice Group: Executive Compensation Compensation: TBC based on experience and location Our Firm: Sterlington PLLC is a full-service law firm focusing on complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth matters. As a firm, we focus on the economic as well as the legal aspects of our matters. Among other strengths, Sterlington is the ultimate law firm for founders, senior executives, and UHNWIs as well as their related businesses. Learn more at: www.sterlingtonlaw.com/ The Opportunity You will work directly with two market-leading Executive Compensation partners, formerly of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen within a lean, agile platform that offers significantly more autonomy and flexibility than traditional BigLaw structures. You will play a key role in advising on executive compensation and employee benefits issues that are central to complex corporate transactions and sensitive executive matters. This is a high-visibility role with direct partner interaction and meaningful client exposure. What You'll Do: Advising on executive compensation and employee benefits issues in connection with M&A, private equity transactions, IPOs, joint ventures, and restructurings Counseling founders, CEOs, senior executives, and boards on: Executive employment and retention agreements Equity incentive and carried interest structures Deferred compensation and incentive arrangements Change-in-control and termination protections Performance-based compensation design Providing strategic guidance on tax and ERISA considerations, including equity compensation and nonqualified deferred compensation programs Supporting compensation aspects of complex and often confidential corporate events Why This Role Is Different Direct access to senior partners with elite big-firm pedigrees High-end, transaction-driven work without traditional BigLaw layers Greater responsibility and client exposure earlier Remote flexibility with a sophisticated nat