Nicole Foster > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Offices
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Nicole Foster
Position
Partner
Career
Nicole focuses her practice on executive compensation and employee benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other business transactions.
Her work includes negotiating, reviewing and drafting transactional documents and identifying issues arising under, and assisting in complying with, the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, federal securities laws and applicable exchange regulations in connection with corporate transactions. Nicole regularly counsels public and private companies on the design, implementation and disclosure of compensation programs, the negotiation of executive employment and separation agreements and the tax, securities law and ERISA implications of employee compensation. She prepares executive compensation disclosure for proxy statements and other securities filings.
Education
- St. John’s University School of Law
J.D., 2003, magna cum laude
- Dowling College
M.S., 2000, summa cum laude
- Binghamton University
B.A., 1997
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
Advising clients from the technology, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP handles employee benefit and executive compensation aspects of complex M&As, IPO and de-SPAC transactions, as showcased by the firm assisting Google in its $5.4bn acquisition of Mandiant. In New York, both Lori Goodman and Nicole Foster co-head the department, with the former regularly leading on the employee benefits elements of many large global transactions, and the latter focusing on providing cross-border executive compensation advice. In the Silicon Valley office, Brandon Gantus was promoted to partner in August 2022, and is highly experienced at supporting clients on the design, drafting and administration of equity-based compensation programs, while counsel Sarah Ghulamhussain works with technology and life sciences companies.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Financial products
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation