Baker Botts L.L.P.

Baker Botts L.L.P. has extensive experience advising on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising from corporate transactions and ERISA-governed plans, with a focus on the energy and private equity sectors. The practice is led from Dallas by Jason Loden and Stephen Marcus, with Loden managing the implementation of employee benefit plans, including qualified retirement, nonqualified deferred compensation, equity incentives, and welfare plans. In Houston, Gail Stewart advises on the design and management of executive compensation arrangements and negotiates employment and severance agreements for senior executives at public and private companies, while the Dallas-based David Schiller handles employee benefit aspects of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, credit agreements, and private placements.