Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed George Tsai as a shareholder in the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice, where he will work closely with the firm’s Corporate and Private Equity M&A Practices. Joining Polsinelli’s Denver office, Tsai is an experienced adviser in the highly complex and technical practice area of employee benefits and executive compensation. Tsai joins the firm from Shearman & Howard LLC in Denver.
“We are delighted to have George on board,” said Bill Sweeney, Chair of Polsinelli’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. “As our Private Equity M&A and Corporate M&A practices have grown significantly over the past years, we have committed to having best-in-class talent to meet the needs of our most sophisticated clients. Having someone of George’s caliber on the team to guide clients through these complex compensation discussions is a great win for us and our clients.”
“I am thrilled to join Polsinelli’s deep EBEC bench and excited for the opportunities this presents for my clients,” said Tsai. “I look forward to utilizing Polsinelli’s well-established resources for existing clients and also to engaging with new clients across Polsinelli’s broad corporate platform.”
As a dedicated EBEC attorney, Tsai frequently counsels clients on executive and incentive compensation issues. He has assisted public and private companies to structure and implement various equity and equity-based incentive plans and awards. He advises on broad-based plans as well as individualized arrangements, including executive employment, retention and severance agreements. In addition to representing companies, he represents individual executives and management groups on executive compensation matters. He also has extensive experience advising on qualified retirement plans, including ESOPs.
In his transactional practice representing both buyers and sellers, Tsai provides comprehensive benefits diligence support, negotiates transactional benefits issues, and advises on benefits transitions and integration. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Polsinelli’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice counsels publicly traded companies, private entities, nonprofit organizations and public sector employers of all sizes and across all industries to help address the full range of legal, financial and administrative issues relating to clients’ executive compensation and benefit plans. In tandem with the firm’s national platform, Polsinelli’s business-minded attorneys partner with clients to achieve their employee benefit and executive compensation objectives.
Source: www.polsinelli.com
