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Julia Petty

Julia Petty’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters. She advises clients in domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, public offerings, as well as restructurings and other reorganizations. Julia routinely counsels clients on disclosure, governance, and shareholder outreach related to compensation and benefits programs, with a particular focus on periods of corporate change, including transaction preparation, senior leadership turnover, shifts in corporate strategy and direction, and shareholder activism. She handles a wide range of other compensation and associated securities, tax, and corporate governance matters, including the design, disclosure, and implementation of equity and cash incentive programs, executive employment and severance arrangements, change in control protections, deferred compensation plans, and retention programs. · Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

United StatesExecutive Compensation, Employee Benefits
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Julia Petty’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters. She advises clients in domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, public offerings, as well as restructurings and other reorganizations. Julia routinely counsels clients on disclosure, governance, and shareholder outreach related to compensation and benefits programs, with a particular focus on periods of corporate change, including transaction preparation, senior leadership turnover, shifts in corporate strategy and direction, and shareholder activism. She handles a wide range of other compensation and associated securities, tax, and corporate governance matters, including the design, disclosure, and implementation of equity and cash incentive programs, executive employment and severance arrangements, change in control protections, deferred compensation plans, and retention programs.

Practice areas

Executive CompensationEmployee BenefitsCorporate GovernanceMergers and AcquisitionsSecuritiesTax

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United States

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton · Julia Petty’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters. She advises clients in domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, public offerings, as well as restructurings and other reorganizations. Julia routinely counsels clients on disclosure, governance, and shareholder outreach related to compensation and benefits programs, with a particular focus on periods of corporate change, including transaction preparation, senior leadership turnover, shifts in corporate strategy and direction, and shareholder activism. She handles a wide range of other compensation and associated securities, tax, and corporate governance matters, including the design, disclosure, and implementation of equity and cash incentive programs, executive employment and severance arrangements, change in control protections, deferred compensation plans, and retention programs.

United States

Expertise

Design, disclosure, and implementation of equity and cash incentive programsExecutive employment and severance arrangementsChange in control protectionsDeferred compensation plansRetention programs

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, J.D.
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.S.E.