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Katten’s Steven Eckhaus Named Among 100 Most Powerful Corporate Employment Attorneys by Lawdragon
May 20, 2009
NEW YORK – Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that Steven G. Eckhaus, chair of the firm’s Executive Employment Practice and a partner in the Financial Services Practice, has been named as one of the country’s 100 Most Powerful Corporate Employment Attorneys by Lawdragon. A complete listing is available on Lawdragon’s website, www.lawdragon.com, and in Human Resource Executive magazine.
Lawdragon creates its guides to the best lawyers in the United States through a combination of online balloting and independent research. Its reporters and editors interview thousands of lawyers to get their input on the top attorneys in any region or practice field. Lawdragon also collects votes through an online ballot, which democratizes such lists, allowing lawyers who might be overlooked through traditional surveying techniques to be identified. Those submissions are then researched and vetted by the editorial staff.
Mr. Eckhaus is a litigator, negotiator and advisor with over 30 years of experience, concentrating on executive compensation, employment law, investment management, corporate and securities law, real estate, dispute resolution and counseling. He has advised and negotiated employment agreements for many of the nation’s leading financial services executives; represented management teams in private equity transactions; advised compensation committees; and counseled executives and employers on non-competition, confidentiality and trade secret agreements, as well as on the design of compensation plans.
Katten’s Executive Employment Practice assists clients with every aspect of executive employment, including negotiating employment agreements, severance agreements, change-in-control agreements, indemnification arrangements, deferred compensation arrangements and long-term incentive plans. It also advises clients on retention issues arising out of leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings. Together with Katten’s Corporate, Securities, Financial Services, Intellectual Property, Tax Planning, Employee Benefits, Labor and Employment and Litigation practices, the Executive Employment Practice tailors solutions that are specific to clients’ needs, from designing the compensation structure for the alternative investment division of a bank holding company, to solving the need to provide equity to management by recapitalizing an asset manager, counseling management through a MBO and negotiating a C-level employment agreement.