Author: Sandra Cohen

Sandra Cohen is a Partner at Cohen & Buckmann PC, a New York-based law firm focusing on executive compensation, pensions & cross-border employment matters. She represents many multi-national corporations on deferred compensation (Section 409A and Section 457(f) plans), severance and employment agreements, stock-based compensation plans and qualified retirement plans (ERISA). She helps clients structure incentive plans to be tax efficient, equity plans (stock options and restricted stock units). Ms. Cohen helps employers work through senior management issues that arise during merger negotiations including managing U.S. golden parachute taxes (Section 280G). Sandra has over two decades of employee-related advisory expertise, originally as a human resource professional and subsequently as an attorney in executive compensation.