Clients – ranging from startups to multinational public companies, in a broad range of industries – look to Anne for her skillful ability to advise on issues related to corporate and employment law, including executive compensation, employee benefits, securities law, and corporate governance.
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.
viewpoints
How Companies Can Prepare for SEC Proxy Advisor Reform
January 12, 2021 | Advisory | By Anne Bruno
Disclosure Considerations Regarding Operations, Liquidity, and Capital Resources
July 21, 2020 | Advisory | By Anne Bruno
Strategies for Adjusting Executive Performance Goals in the Covid-19 Era
July 20, 2020 | Advisory | By Anne Bruno
Executive Compensation: Moving Forward in a COVID-19 World
June 2, 2020 | Blog | By Alexander Song, Anne Bruno, Michael Arnold, Steve Gulotta, Andrew Bernstein
Board Oversight of Human Capital Management No Longer a Nice-to-Have for Smaller Public Companies
May 29, 2020 | Advisory | By Anne Bruno
Governor Baker Issues Executive Order Temporarily Permitting Massachusetts Public Companies to Hold Virtual-Only Shareholder Meetings
March 31, 2020 | Blog | By Anne Bruno
Disclosure Guidance for Public Companies Affected By COVID-19
March 26, 2020 | Advisory | By Anne Bruno
Virtual Shareholder Meetings Permitted for NY Corporations through April 19
March 23, 2020 | Blog | By Anne Bruno
SEC Guidance for Annual Shareholders Meetings Affected by COVID-19
March 17, 2020 | Advisory | By Anne Bruno
News & Press
Mintz Promotes Nine to Member
December 15, 2021
Mintz Advises JMP Group in Sale to Citizens Financial Group
November 16, 2021
Mintz Advises Cardurion Pharmaceuticals in Investment of up to $300 Million from Bain Capital
November 02, 2021
‘Too Old’ to Be CEO — Bias Charges in Succession Plan
November 6, 2020
Events & Speaking
Designing Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans Under New SEC Rules: Preserving the Affirmative Defense
Strafford
Online Event
Cryptocurrency in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Arrangements
A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
Strafford Webinar
Disclosure, Financing, and Executive Compensation Basics for New and Aspiring Public Company Executives
Boston Bar Association
Webinar
Let's Talk SPACs - SPACs Session 2: de-SPAC – So Now You’re a Public Company
HUB International
Webinar
ESG 101: Emerging Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Issues for Boards
View the Webinar Recording
Clients – ranging from startups to multinational public companies, in a broad range of industries – look to Anne for her skillful ability to advise on issues related to corporate and employment law, including executive compensation, employee benefits, securities law, and corporate governance.
Recognition & Awards
Phi Beta Kappa