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Joe Adams

+1 312-558-3723 [email protected]

Work Department

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Career

https://www.winston.com/en/professionals/adams-joseph-s

Joe Adams focuses his practice exclusively on employee benefits and executive compensation, and has represented some of the largest companies in the world and many prominent “C-suite” executives with respect to such matters. Clients describe him as “efficient and easy to work with,” “an incredibly skilled employee benefits attorney,” and “able to help with judgment calls on ambiguous matters.” (Chambers USA 2023.)

Top Tier Firm Rankings

• Dispute resolution > E-discovery
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
• Finance > Project finance
• Energy > Renewable/alternative power
• Industry focus > Sport

Firm Rankings

• Antitrust > Cartel
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
• Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
• Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
• Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
• Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
• Intellectual property > Copyright
• Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Finance > Fintech
• Dispute resolution > International litigation
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
• Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
• Real estate > Real estate
• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
• Transport > Shipping: finance
• Finance > Structured finance: securitization
• Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
• Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
• Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
• Environment > Environment: litigation
• Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
• Dispute resolution > International arbitration
• Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Healthcare > Life sciences
• Tax > US taxes: contentious
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Healthcare > Service providers
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
• Government > Government contracts