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Nicole Foster

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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