Qualifications and Career Profile
Hannah C. Amoah concentrates her practice on matters of employment law and executive compensation, with an emphasis on negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements, and mediating and arbitrating claims for both employees and entities.
Her clients include domestic and foreign institutions of various sizes, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds and emerging business enterprises, as well as individuals throughout the United States ranging from highly compensated traders and institutional sales professionals, investment bankers and hedge fund professionals to employees in a variety of fields.
Her services include counsel on employee relations matters such as discrimination claims to compensation disputes, assisting with downsizings and workplace reductions, assisting with mergers and business combinations, creating both sophisticated and standard employment agreements, creating non-competition agreements and non-solicitation agreements, providing innovative training in areas such as sexual harassment and anti-discrimination and investigating claims of discrimination, creating separation agreements and general releases, performing or assisting with workplace investigations, counsel on and conducting audits relating to exempt/non-exempt status and overtime issues, counsel on family and medical leave requirements and disability laws, creating employee handbooks and workplace policies, counsel on consulting arrangements, counsel on employee misconduct, and strategy on negotiating terminations.
Lectures and Articles
Ms. Amoah is a frequent contributor to Katten advisories on a variety of employment related topics.
Recent publications include:
Education and Bar Admissions
Ms. Amoah earned her Bachelor of Science and Arts degree from Tufts University in 2000. She went on to earn her Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University and her Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2006, where she was the Senior Symposium Editor of the
Environmental Law Review. She is admitted to practice in New York, and is a member of the New York City Bar Association's Sex and Law Committee.