Kate Winslow provides strategic legal advice on executive compensation, qualified retirement plans, and health and welfare benefits, taking into account tax compliance, corporate governance requirements, and employee morale. Senior executives and in-house legal teams for multinational corporations rely on Kate for counsel on these issues when they are completing mergers, acquisitions and other large-scale, complex deals and private equity transactions. Kate also guides niche clients on more focused transactions.
In addition to her work on deals, Kate collaborates with senior HR, tax, and financial business leadership to identify, design, draft, and implement strategic goals and priorities with respect to employee compensation and benefits arrangements, communication strategies, and educational initiatives for executive-only and company-wide plans and programs. She also negotiates and drafts:
- Executive employment and severance agreements.
- Incentive compensation plans.
- Perks and equity-based arrangements for executives.
Kate works with an array of industries and businesses including Fortune 500 corporations in food manufacturing, private-equity based bio science companies, regional financial institutions, physician and dental practices and rapidly growing family-owned startups.