Evan Belosa > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

McDermott Will & Emery LLP
340 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10173-1922
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

Position

Evan A. Belosa is an experienced negotiator and counselor, focusing his practice on all aspects of executive employment and compensation matters.

In the scope of his practice, Evan represents individuals from virtually every industry across the United States, with a specific focus on executive officers and employees at all levels of the financial services industry. In addition to individuals, he also represents institutions in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and research providers. Evan also has significant experience in the areas of executive compensation and employee benefits, and has frequently represented both management teams and employers in designing and drafting compensation structures and plans.

In representing his clients, Evan has a wide range of experience negotiating and drafting agreements of all kinds, including sophisticated employment agreements, consulting and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenant clauses and agreements, confidentiality agreements, equity plan documents, and separation and release agreements. He is also a seasoned practitioner litigating matters for both employers and employees in claims arising from employee/employer disputes, with experience mediating, arbitrating and litigating claims in state and federal courts, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association and private dispute resolution services.

Evan is the author of “I Can’t Call Who? Employee Nonsolicitation of Clients Covenants Under New York Law,” published in the winter 2015 edition of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Journal, “The Devil in the Details: Termination Provision, Non-Competition Clauses” and “Finding the Balance Between Flexibility and Uniformity in Modern Executive Employment Agreements,” published in the 2013 edition of Inside the Minds, Negotiation and Drafting Employment Agreements, and “A Practitioner’s Guide to Negotiating Good Reason Clauses for Executives,” published in the September/October 2010 issue of Compensation & Benefits Review.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional

McDermott Will & Emery LLP has expertise in advising major domestic and international players on retirement plans, welfare benefits, and ESOPs. The firm’s client base includes healthcare companies, financial service entities and commercial aircraft manufacturers, with the group routinely assisting these corporations with high-value M&A and complex private equity deals. Global practice head Andrew Liazos is based in the Boston office,  bringing vast experience in representing Fortune 500 companies and executive committees in relation to compensation plan governance concerns and fiduciary issues under ERISA. Diane Morgenthaler and Todd Solomon are both based in Chicago, with the former specializing in handling employee benefit issues involved in corporate transactions such as acquisitions and reorganizations, while the latter focuses on counselling fiduciaries on their investment policies. In Dallas, Allison Wilkerson advises on equity compensation plans and profit sharing. In New York, Evan Belosa supports executive officers and employees from the financial services industry with compensation matters.