About Meredith Sheldon O'Leary
Clients rely on Meredith Sheldon O’Leary to ensure their executive leadership compensation strategies are effective and tax-efficient, particularly when navigating mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, reorganizations and other corporate transactions. She partners with management groups and both public and private companies to design and implement employment, equity, incentive and deferred compensation programs that help achieve business objectives while meeting tax, securities and other regulatory requirements. Meredith’s approach to client service is grounded in extensive experience with equity and equity-based compensation, short- and long-term incentive programs, non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements, change in control programs, and retention and severance packages.
People-first compensation strategies with a personable touch
Meredith represents financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, pension funds and large multinational entities across a variety of industries. In doing so, she advises on implementing and transitioning executive compensation arrangements as well as employee benefits such as retirement, health and welfare programs, ensuring practical and comprehensive solutions throughout every phase of a corporate transaction.
Practice Focus
- Employee benefits and executive compensation
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity
- Corporate transactions
- Restructurings
- Health and welfare and fringe benefit plan compliance, administration and funding
