AMY RUBIN is the co-leader of the firm’s global Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice. She focuses her practice on executive compensation, employee benefits, and ERISA matters. She regularly advises publicly traded and privately held companies, as well as their boards of directors and compensation committees, on a wide range of employee benefits and executive compensation issues. Amy offers guidance on employee benefits and executive compensation in the context of private equity transactions, strategic mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, financing transactions, and ongoing company operations. Her experience includes the negotiation, design, and implementation of executive employment and separation arrangements, equity and cash incentive plans, deferred compensation plans, and other compensation and employee benefit plans.
Amy has been recognized for her work in the field by various industry publications. She is consistently acknowledged for New York Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation by Chambers USA (2011–2024), where clients describe her as "a zealous advocate" and an “excellent lawyer” (2024). Additionally, she is recommended as a "Leading Partner" for Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation by Legal 500 US (2024) and was named a Benefits "MVP" by Law360 (2020).