Anne is also a key member of the firm’s multidisciplinary ESG practice, helping corporate boards, companies, and their investors navigate a broad range of environmental, social, and governance considerations. She is also a member of the firm’s FinTech, Blockchain, and Digital Assets practice, where she regularly advises on compensation and benefits programs involving cryptocurrency and digital assets.

Part of Anne’s practice involves helping clients create, implement and administer equity and executive compensation arrangements and programs, including equity plans, phantom equity arrangements, incentive plans, deferred compensation plans, change-in-control arrangements, and severance and employment agreements.  She also advises with respect to tax, corporate and securities law concerns that arise in connection with such plans and arrangements. She advises and represents a broad range of public and private companies, boards of directors and compensation committees in these matters. She also assists executives with negotiation of their compensation packages, and works closely with senior executives and founders to implement 10b5-1 plans and complex diversification strategies. Additionally, Anne has played a significant role in many public offerings, SPAC transactions and merger and acquisition transactions, representing companies in connection with complex employee benefits and compensation-related aspects.

On the corporate side of her practice, Anne leverages her broad-ranging experience to counsel clients on the intricacies of the federal securities laws. Anne advises public companies and registrants in preparing required disclosure filings and shareholder materials, and helps companies develop ESG strategies, consider disclosure requirements of director and executive compensation, understand cybersecurity issues, and address institutional investors and proxy advisory firm considerations.

In addition, Anne assists companies in implementing and administering a range of policies to address governance obligations, including insider trading, anti-hedging and claw back policies.  She also provides guidance on securities laws requirements to clients involved in public and private M&A and private equity and leveraged buyout transactions, as well as debt and equity financings, divestitures, spinoffs, and IPOs.