Qualifications and Career Profile
Evan A. Belosa is an experienced litigator, negotiator, and counselor, focusing his practice on all aspects of executive employment and compensation matters.
In the scope of his practice, Mr. Belosa represents individuals from virtually every industry across the United States, with a specific focus on executive officers and employees at all levels of the financial services industry. In addition to individuals, he also represents institutions in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and research providers.
In representing his clients, Mr. Belosa has a wide range of experience negotiating and drafting agreements of all kinds, including sophisticated employment agreements, consulting and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenant clauses and agreements, confidentiality agreements, equity plan documents, and separation and release agreements. He is also a seasoned practitioner litigating matters for both employers and employees in claims arising from employee/employer disputes, with experience mediating, arbitrating and litigating claims in state and federal courts, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association and private dispute resolution services.
Among his significant litigation representations, Mr. Belosa has:
- represented a former Chief Financial Officer in both arbitration and litigation in federal court against his former employer for compensation arising from his resignation for "Good Reason;"
- represented a former employee in successfully bringing an arbitration against his former employer for breach of contract for failure to pay contractually mandated separation payments and vesting of equity awards;
- represented an employer in an arbitration brought against the employer by a former employee on a host of compensation related claims;
- represented a former employee in successfully bringing an arbitration against his former employer for breach of contract for failure to pay a bonus mandated in the employee's contract; and
- represented a former employee in successfully bringing an arbitration for fraudulent inducement and an action in state court for age discrimination against his former employer.
Memberships and Publications
Mr. Belosa is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he is a member of the Executive Compensation and Benefits group and the Executive Compensation sub-group. He is the author of "
A Practitioner's Guide to Negotiating Good Reason Clauses for Executives," published in the September/October 2010 issue of
Compensation & Benefits Review, and a frequent contributor to firm advisories on a variety of matters.
Education and Bar Admissions
Mr. Belosa earned his Juris Doctor degree,
cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2002, and a Bachelor of Arts degree,
summa cum laude, from Emory University in 1999, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, and the U.S. District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York.