KARIM PIRANI regularly counsels clients on executive compensation, equity compensation, and employee benefits issues in connection with corporate transactions. His practice also includes advising both publicly and privately held companies in designing and establishing equity incentive plans and employment, severance, retention, change in control, and other compensation-related arrangements.
Karim is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono and Public Interest Law Committee. He maintains an active pro bono practice and was recognized as the 2019 Rookie of the Year by the National Immigrant Justice Center for his work to help asylees and refugees obtain lawful permanent resident status and bring family members to the United States.
Karim earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he graduated first in his class, summa cum laude. He earned his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, in both History and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies from the University of Chicago.