Dina advises companies on a broad range of matters involving employment agreements, compensation plans, and benefits. She also represents clients in connection with employee benefits and executive compensation–related aspects of corporate transactions, reorganizations, and securities offerings.
Dina has significant experience with drafting and negotiating employment, consulting, termination, severance, retention, transaction bonus, and restrictive covenant agreements. She also regularly designs and prepares compensation plans, including profits interest, phantom unit, and other cash and equity-based arrangements, working closely with company leaders to resolve issues involving the administration of such plans. Her transaction-focused work has included drafting transactional documents, conducting due diligence, and identifying critical compliance issues.
Prior to joining Mintz, Dina practiced employment law at New York-based and international law firms.
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Hiring Across the 49th Parallel: Traps for the Unwary for Cross-Border US-Canada Hires (Part II)
October 8, 2024 | Blog | By David Lagasse, Brad Tartick, Patrick Denroche, Dina Sebrow
The United States and Canada are each other’s largest trade partners with nearly C$3.6 billion/US$2.7 billion worth of goods and services crossing the border each day in 2023. The United States is the single greatest investor in Canada and Canada was the largest source of foreign direct investment in the United States at the end of 2022.[1] As commerce in general and employee mobility in particular increases, employers with operations in the United States and Canada may consider a “one-size-fits all” approach to employment, benefits and compensation arrangements. However, despite many similarities, employers should take heed of possible discrepancies across the two countries’ employment landscapes. In this Part II of our series on cross-border hiring, we discuss health benefits and retirement benefits.
