Akin Gump is pleased to announce that leading executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer Romica Singh has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Ms. Singh brings over 15 years of executive compensation experience in both transactional and day-to-day matters involving the design of compensation and benefit arrangements. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Singh was a partner at Gunderson Dettmer and previously worked at Cravath and Paul Weiss.
Ms. Singh regularly counsels public and private companies on the design of various compensation and benefit arrangements, including equity and cash incentive programs, and assists companies in navigating tax laws specific to executive compensation. She also advises companies on the recruitment of senior executives and is experienced in negotiating executive employment, retention, change-in-control and separation agreements.
With a great depth of practice, Ms. Singh has extensive knowledge of, and experience in, handling compensation and benefits matters arising in the context of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, initial public offerings, restructurings and other corporate transactions and has worked on a number of notable cross-border and domestic transactions across a wide array of industries. Her practice also includes advising clients on securities laws and corporate governance matters related to executive compensation.
Commenting on Ms. Singh’s arrival, Akin Gump chairperson Kim Koopersmith said, “I am extremely pleased to welcome Romica to Akin Gump. Her knowledge of sophisticated and high-level executive compensation and benefits matters in a number of key industries further strengthens the depth of our service offerings across the firm’s practice areas.”
Stuart Leblang, co-head of Akin Gump’s tax practice, concurred, “Romica is a valuable addition to our firm. Her wide-ranging executive compensation experience in a variety of contexts, coupled with her transactional work and knowledge of SEC reporting and disclosure matters, makes her well suited to collaborating across our multidisciplinary teams.”
Speaking of her move to Akin Gump, Ms. Singh said, “I am thrilled to join the team of superb lawyers at Akin Gump. The firm is highly regarded for its caliber of expertise and its commercial and collaborative approach, and is leading some of the most exciting corporate and restructuring transactions in the market. In these types of transactions, compensation and benefits issues are uniquely complex and critical to our clients, and I look forward to leveraging my experience to contribute to our clients’ successes.”
Ms. Singh received her J.D. from Vanderbilt University, and her B.A. from the University of Michigan – Honors College.
