Enhances Firm's West Coast Executive Compensation & Benefits Practice NEW YORK, June 13
NEW YORK, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced
today that Tristan M. Brown will join the Firm's Executive Compensation and
Employee Benefits practice as a partner in the Firm's Palo Alto office.
"We are pleased to welcome Tristan to the talented team of attorneys
working in our Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice," said
Pete Ruegger, Chairman of Simpson Thacher's Executive Committee. "Tristan will
advise clients on a broad range of employee compensation and benefit matters.
His skill and experience will be an important addition to the Firm and will
enhance our practice in Silicon Valley."
"Having Tristan in Palo Alto will anchor our West Coast compensation and
benefits work, as well as strengthen our efforts in Asia," explained Alvin
Brown, the head of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits
group.
"I am excited to join my new Simpson Thacher colleagues and the Executive
Compensation and Employee Benefits group, which plays such an important role
in the Firm's dynamic transactional practice," Tristan Brown commented.
Previously, Tristan Brown was a partner in the New York office of Akin
Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he advised private equity clients and
publicly held corporations with respect to executive compensation and employee
benefit issues arising in corporate transactions. Mr. Brown received his B.A.
with high distinction in history and political science from Trinity College,
University of Toronto in 1993; his J.D. in 1996 from the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law, where he was an associate editor of the Faculty of Law Review;
and his LL.M. in labor and employment law in 1997 from the Georgetown
University Law Center, where he was awarded the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J.
Prize for ranking first in his LL.M. program.
Simpson Thacher's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits group
counsels clients in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of
executive and employee compensation, equity and benefit arrangements over the
broad range of legal matters on which the Firm's corporate practice is
engaged. This includes advice on succession and integration issues in
strategic mergers of public companies, negotiating management equity
compensation programs critical to private equity acquisitions, developing
benefit plan investments in venture capital and private equity funds, and
implementing broad-based incentive arrangements in connection with initial
public offerings.
ABOUT SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (www.simpsonthacher.com) is a leading
global law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Washington,
D.C., Beijing, Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo. Established in 1884, the Firm has
more than 800 lawyers. Globally, the Firm provides coordinated legal advice on
the world's largest and most complex corporate transactions and litigation
matters.
CONTACT:
Jackie Yodashkin
212-455-7828
jyodashkin@stblaw.com
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