Maria Kenny
Partner
Maria focuses on counseling public and private companies, private equity clients, and management teams on a variety of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
Partner
Maria focuses on counseling public and private companies, private equity clients, and management teams on a variety of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
Maria has experience advising clients on various employment and executive compensation issues, including internal policy reviews, structuring incentive equity and non-equity incentives, employee benefits guidance, and ERISA compliance.
She serves as corporate counsel advising on the employment, labor, compensation, and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions, advising on all stages of a transaction lifecycle that impact management and employees. Maria also assists clients with executive employment agreements, severance agreements and plans, equity and compensation arrangements, non-qualified retirement plans, and welfare benefit plans.
Over 20 years of volunteering and fundraising with the Westchester County Long Island Sound Chapter of Swim Across America, a national non-profit supporting local cancer research and support services in local communities.
Maria received her B.A., cum laude, in Public Communication from American University in 2011, and she received her J.D., cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law in 2014.
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