Katie is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s employment, executive compensation, and employee benefits practice. Katie advises companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, with a focus on executive compensation in private equity transactions.
Katie’s practice involves advising buyers and sellers on the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, strategic transactions, and private equity and public company transactions, including the treatment of equity and incentive awards, benefit plans and executive arrangements, and the design of employee retention arrangements. Katie remains involved with portfolio companies after a transaction closes, designing and drafting management equity arrangements and other equity and incentive compensation arrangements (including stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, and profits interests), nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, employment agreements, bonus arrangements, and other executive compensation agreements.
Katie counsels clients on compliance with the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and certain other state and local laws as they apply to executive compensation arrangements and benefit plans, including Sections 83, 280G, and 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray in 2021, Katie was an associate in the executive compensation and employee benefits group of another leading global law firm.