Pillsbury’s Tax Business Unit is seeking a dynamic, high-performing associate with 2-3 years of experience to join its Executive Compensation & Benefits Practice Group. This position offers flexibility in location, with the opportunity to be in our Austin, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, or Silicon Valley office. Please indicate your preferred office location in your cover letter.

The ideal candidate will have experience advising public and private employers, including start-ups, on a broad range of executive compensation and benefits matters, with key areas of focus on mergers and acquisitions (including Section 280G analysis), financings and initial public offerings, executive hires and terminations, stock compensation plans and award agreements, nonqualified deferred compensation (Section 409A), general ERISA and group benefits compliance, and public company reporting and disclosure obligations.

We are looking for an associate who demonstrates sound judgment, has proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships, and produces work of the highest standard. A proactive mindset, diligence, and a commitment to client service are foundational to success.

Responsibilities include:

• Thriving in a fast-paced environment by collaborating with attorneys both locally and across the firm to deliver exceptional client service.

• Demonstrating flexibility and commitment by working extended hours when needed to meet project deadlines and business demands. An initiative-taking approach and dedication to timely task completion are of the utmost importance.

• Communicate effectively – both orally and in writing – with firm clients on a wide range of highly sophisticated transactions.

Qualifications include:

• Juris Doctor (JD) or foreign equivalent; an LLM will be considered in lieu of a JD.

• Prior or current experience at an Am Law 100 firm.

• Excellent academic credentials.

• Exceptional analytical, research, and legal writing skills.

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication abilities.

• Thorough understanding of professional ethics and conduct codes applicable to legal practice.

• Admission to and good standing with the bar in the jurisdiction(s) where you will practice.

Pillsbury has one of the largest and most talented stand-alone groups of compensation and benefits lawyers in the country. Recognized as a premier team nationally and internationally, we provide comprehensive guidance on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits. Over the decades, Pillsbury has advised leading private, public, not-for-profit, and governmental entities on many of their most significant and ground-breaking executive compensation and employee benefits transactions and disputes. We also represent individual executives in high-profile employment agreement and exit arrangements.

About Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Pillsbury has been a long-time supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The firm was among the first major law firms to promote women to partnership and the first large, national firm in the Unites States to elect a woman as its top leader. Today, DEI initiatives and programs are widespread across the firm. Pillsbury is strongly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our firm’s strategic plan includes a combination of internal and external initiatives. Internal initiatives are focused on, among other things, enhancing the experience of our diverse attorney population, increasing our retention and promotion rates, increasing the number of diverse attorneys in leadership roles, and increasing the number of diverse equity partners. Our employee resource groups include: (i) DiverseAbilities, serves as a resource and an advocate for employees with disabilities and their families, (ii) M.E.R.G. (Military Employee Resource Group), which supports active and retired military personnel and their families, (iii) Pillsbury Pride, a resource group for LGBTQ+ members and their allies, (iv) Black Excellence, focuses on the professional development of the firm's black business pro...fessionals, and (v) First Gen, provides support and development tools to individuals who are first generation professionals. Our business resource groups that focus on professional support and development and fostering business relationships include: (i) Women’s Impact Network and (ii) Attorneys of Color Network. The firm’s external initiatives are focused on a number of different efforts, including: pipeline programs to provide mentoring for high school and college students while exposing them to legal careers; the development of a diversity scholarship program for college graduates entering law school; enhancing our visibility on law school campuses by educating students on the firm’s culture and commitment to diversity and inclusion, in addition to exposing them to new areas of law; being intentional about recruiting diverse lateral attorneys; and requesting a diverse candidate pool from our recruiters. Year after year, Pillsbury’s inclusion efforts are recognized throughout the industry. Here are some examples of our accolades: Best Law Firm for Women for 13 years, 100 Best Companies for Women for 14 years, Best Companies for Dads in 2020, 100% score on Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ+ equality since 2006, and in 2021 Yale Law Women ranked Pillsbury the Top Firm for Racial Justice Contributions.

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