Emily is a member of Preti Flaherty’s Corporate and M&A Practice Group, where her practice focuses on executive compensation and transactional tax matters, with a particular emphasis on representing individual executives and senior management in complex compensation and M&A-related engagements. Her clients include private companies at all stages of life and private and public company executives throughout the US in a wide range of industries.

Emily regularly represents executives—ranging from founders of early-stage companies to C-suite executives at public companies—in negotiating executive employment agreements, equity and cash incentive arrangements, deferred compensation structures, and separation agreements. She counsels executives on the tax and economic consequences of compensation arrangements in connection with corporate restructurings, financings, and mergers and acquisitions, including planning for and negotiating issues arising under Sections 409A and 280G of the Code. Her executive compensation work also includes advising on and negotiating awards of profits interests, carried interest, restricted equity, SARs, RSUs and similar equity awards, and other incentive and golden handcuff arrangements tailored to executives’ individual goals, risk profiles and industry norms.

Emily advises companies on executive compensation matters including negotiating hires and implementing equity and cash incentive plans. She provides tax advice to business clients at all stages of the business lifecycle—from formation through exit—on entity structuring, fund formations, equity investments, change-of-control transactions, and other complex transactional and restructuring matters.

Emily also has experience advising clients on federal, state, and local tax credit and financing programs, including tax increment financing, and she works with nonprofit organizations on tax and operational matters.

Emily lives in Portland with her partner, two children and two dogs.