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Deborah Lifshey

Deborah Lifshey, a Managing Director in the New York office, specializes in advising clients on compensation matters from a legal perspective, including securities disclosure, taxation and corporate governance issues, as well as contract negotiation and reasonableness opinion letters.

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer & Partners, Ms. Lifshey practiced at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where she specialized in executive compensation, ERISA matters and corporate transactions, and at Holland and Knight, where she specialized in employment litigation matters.

Ms. Lifshey’s authored and co-authored works include: To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Performance Targets and the SEC, Directors Monthly (March 2008); The New Qualified Plan Minimum Distribution Rules, The New York Law Journal (Winter, 1996); IRS Changes Rules Through Field Service Advice – This Time on FICA and ESPP, Journal of Taxation of Employee Benefits, RIA Group Publishing (January/February 2000); Perquisites, Executive Compensation and Benefits Handbook, BNA Publications (2002); Negotiating and Drafting Employment Agreements, Executive Compensation and Benefits Handbook (2004); and Executive Compensation: The Perspective of the Compensation Consultant, Chapter 15 of Corporate Governance: Law and Practice (2005). She regularly speaks and is quoted on disclosure and taxation issues and executive compensation best practices.

A graduate of the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University and the University of Florida College of Law, Ms. Lifshey served as a federal clerk for the Honorable Judge Susan H. Black on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the New York and Florida Bars.