BUFFALO - Key Persons
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- Partner / Rochester and New
- PARTNER in CHARGE - NEW YORK
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- Member of the Governance Committee
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- Named Government Affairs Practice Group Leader, December 1, 2020
- PARTNER - in - CHARGE - ALBANY
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- Associate
- Appointed to Eighth Judicial District Attorney Grievance Committee, January 6, 2022
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- Chairman of the Monroe County Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section
Tony has served as Chair of the Monroe County Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section, and has been a frequent presenter at continuing legal education programs on estate planning and probate issues for the Monroe County and New York State bar associations.
Autumn is an associate in both the Health Care and Nonprofit Organizations practice groups where she performs due diligence reviews, prepares legal documents, and conducts research. Prior to joining HSE, she was a summer associate with the firm and gained hands-on experience researching complex legal issues and drafting memoranda and legal news alerts.
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- Harter Secrest & Emery Partner
Ben regularly provides training to executive and employee groups on non-harassment, wage and hour, and other labor and employment issues. He is a fully trained civil rights investigator and conducts on-campus sexual misconduct investigations.
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- Partner
- Partner / Rochester
Brian Shaw's expertise is in matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He prepares and prosecutes patent applications, prepares patentability opinions, patent infringement opinions, and counsels on and prepares licensing and technology transfer agreements. Brian's experience includes:
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- Partner
- Partner / Rochester
Christopher Potash is an executive compensation lawyer with broad-based experience in tax, corporate, securities, and other laws and regulations affecting executive compensation, and is the head of the Firm's executive compensation practice. He represents both public and private companies, both US and international, from closely held businesses, to private equity funds to Fortune 100 companies.
His experience includes:
Advising US clients with respect to the design, drafting, implementation and operation of equity compensation arrangements, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance awards, employee stock purchase plans, phantom awards, and profits interests.
Advising UK and other international companies on the US aspects of their global equity compensation arrangements, including the US tax, federal and state securities laws, exchange rules, data privacy and other matters.
Advising clients with respect to the design, implementation and operation of nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, including deferred cash arrangements, elective deferral arrangements, supplemental retirement plans, rabbi and secular trust arrangements, and other nonqualified arrangements. Christopher has extensive experience with all aspects of Section 409A of the Tax Code, as well as the correction procedures under such section. He also has experience with the application of Section 409A to non-US arrangements and the strategies for addressing the potential Section 409A issues presented.
Representing domestic and international clients with respect to the US executive compensation aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, including executive compensation due diligence, representation and warranties, covenants, Section 280G golden parachute payment provisions and employee matters, as well as assistance with post-closing integration of executive compensation arrangements.
Design, implementation, and operation of director compensation arrangements.
Design of change-in-control agreements, severance agreements, parachute payments and golden handcuffs.
Advising US public companies regarding SEC disclosure of director and executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements in their annual proxy statements, including say-on-pay and CEO pay ratio disclosure under Dodd Frank.
Advising US public companies regarding corporate governance matters and best practices.
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- Counsel
- Counsel / Rochester
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- MANAGING PARTNER
- Managing Partner / Rochester and
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- Retired Partner / Rochester and New
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- Lead Corporate Practice Group at Harter Secrest & Emery
- Partner / Rochester
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- Member of the Management Committee
- PARTNER
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- Member of the Management Committee
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- Chosen to Receive Attorney of the Year Award from the Daily Record
- Partner / Rochester
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- Member of the Management Committee
- PARTNER
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- Director
- Attorney Recruiting
- Director of Legal Recruiting and Professional Development
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- Senior Associate / Rochester
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- Chief Business Development Officer
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Senior Counsel / Rochester
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- Member of the Management Committee
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- Director of Human Resources
- Paralegal Recruiting
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- Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer
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- CO - PARTNER - in - CHARGE - CORNING
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- Associate / Rochester and Albany
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- Partner - Private Equity / Rochester