Jean
Cogill
(Jeanie)

Jeanie advises public and private companies across a variety of industry sectors on all aspects of executive compensation arrangements, including equity incentive programs, employment agreements, change in control protections, incentive programs and nonqualified deferred compensation plans.  Jeanie also regularly advises clients on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. Jeanie helps employers, management, and plan fiduciary committees design, establish and administer tax-qualified pension plans, health and welfare plans and fringe benefit programs, and counsels them on their fiduciary, tax and other compliance responsibilities.  

Jeanie also counsels investment managers and their principals, including sponsors of hedge funds, private equity funds and real estate funds, on the fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA, including the structuring and administration of private commingled funds that are marketed to employee benefit plans and tax-advantaged accounts.