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Gina L. Lauriero

Partner

Gina L. Lauriero advises clients across the spectrum of employee benefits and executive compensation matters. Her practice encompasses designing, implementing, and administering equity, incentive compensation, nonqualified deferred compensation, employment, and severance plans and agreements for public and private companies. When clients undertake mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, she offers advice on all employee benefits and compensation-related aspects. Gina’s recent work has included advising a credit ratings agency on its acquisition of a leading provider of analytical tools and data.

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    Extended Profile

    Gina also provided counsel to a British communications and events company in its acquisition of the entire issued and outstanding capital stock of a privately held US trade show organizer.

    Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Gina was an associate in the employee benefits and executive compensation practice of a large international law firm. She was also an editor for an international legal publishing company where she wrote and edited employee benefits and executive compensation articles.

    Education

    • College of the Holy Cross, 2001, B.A., Cum Laude
    • Cornell Law School, 2004, J.D., Cum Laude

    Admissions

    • New Jersey
    • New York

    Awards and Affiliations

    Member, Law Firm of the Year, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Chambers USA (2019)

    Member, Law Firm of the Year, Employee Benefits (ERISA Law), US News/Best Lawyers – Best Law Firms (2019)

    Recommended, Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional, The Legal 500 US (2018, 2019)

    Publications

    5/17/2017 - Practical Considerations Relating to Share Withholding for Taxes, ML BeneBits

    8/8/2016 - Section 83(b) Elections No Longer Required with Federal Income Tax Returns, ML BeneBits

    4/30/2014 - Anatomy of an Employment Agreement

    News

    6/23/2017 - Morgan Lewis Elects 31 New Partners

    6/17/2016 - Morgan Lewis Advises BASF in $3.2 Billion Acquisition of Chemetall

    7/2/2015 - Morgan Lewis Advises Health Net, Inc. in $6.8 Billion Sale to Centene Corporation

    6/17/2015 - Morgan Lewis Advises Pearson on $350M Sale of PowerSchool Business

    10/27/2014 - Morgan Lewis Represents Moody’s in Acquisition of Leading Analytical Tools Provider

    10/1/2014 - Morgan Lewis Represents UBM in $972M Purchase of Advanstar Communications

    Events

    5/16/2019 - 2019 ERISA Litigation Roundtable

    11/9/2017 - Federal Chapter Meeting Executive Compensation Update

    12/8/2016 - Hot Topics in Employee Benefits: What We’re Seeing – December 2016

    11/18/2016 - Setting the Scene for 2017: Potential Labor and Employment Changes Under the New Administration

    3/25/2015 - Hot Topics in Employee Benefits — What We're Seeing - March 2015

    4/30/2014 - Executive Compensation Basics: Anatomy of an Employment Agreement

    4/22/2014 - Executive Compensation Tax Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions