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Robin Melman

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Work Department

Tax / Executive Compensation & Benefits

Position

Partner

Section Chair – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Firmwide)

Career

Robin Melman is adept at navigating the relevant corporate governance, disclosure requirement, tax and contractual issues that arise during sensitive management transitions, including as part of deal negotiations. Robin also has extensive experience guiding clients through the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of various corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, initial public offerings, and private equity and leveraged buyouts. She provides practical advice about how to address real business concerns, such as retention issues, qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plan treatment alternatives and 280G tax loss mitigation. Robin is a thought leader in the evolution of human capital management and executive compensation disclosure requirements and the resulting impact on compensation practices. Robin also provides ongoing advice to public and private companies, boards of directors, and compensation committees with respect to day-to-day executive compensation matters, including equity and incentive compensation plan design and implementation, and related securities, tax, and public disclosure issues. She
negotiates employment agreements, separation agreements and noncompetition agreements and designs bonus plans, long-term incentive plans and other compensation-related plans and programs. Robin assists clients with the drafting of relevant sections of proxy statements, periodic and current reports, and registration statements.

Robin has been providing advice to clients on their most delicate and important executive compensation issues for over fifteen years. Her clients have included public and private companies, boards of directors, compensation committees, special committees of the board of directors, chief executive officers and management teams.

Memberships

New York State Bar

Education

J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 2006,
Managing Editor, Ohio State Law Journal, cum laude;

B.B.A., Business Economics, Ohio University, 2003, magna cum laude

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