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practice areas

practice accolades

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Listed, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Nationally) in Chambers USA (2012)

Listed, Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in The U.S. Legal 500 (2012)

Private Investment Funds

Ranked "#1 Most Active Law Firm" globally, based on the number of funds worked on for limited partners, by Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst (2013) 

Ranked, National Tier 1: Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2012)

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David B. Zelikoff
Partner

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Email: dzelikoff@morganlewis.com
Philadelphia
1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.5360
Fax: 215.963.5001

David B. Zelikoff is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. Mr. Zelikoff is experienced in all facets of employee benefits and executive compensation, including qualified plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements, equity compensation plans, employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions, senior management representations in private equity buyouts, employment matters, securities issues relating to employee benefits and executive compensation, executive compensation issues for REITs, and welfare plans.

Mr. Zelikoff is also actively involved in pension investments, including hedge funds and private equity funds for large single employer plans.

Mr. Zelikoff earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 1997, where he was notes editor for the George Washington University Law Review. He earned his B.A. in economics from The College of New Jersey in 1994.

Mr. Zelikoff is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.

education

  • George Washington University Law School, 1997, J.D.
  • College of New Jersey, 1994, B.A.