KRISTIN SHARMAN
Associate
EXPERIENCE
Ms. Sharman is an executive compensation and benefits associate of MCLLP. Prior to joining MCLLP, she was an associate in the executive compensation and benefits practice group of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York.
Ms. Sharman regularly advises private equity sponsors and portfolio companies in connection with executive compensation, employee benefits and labor matters in complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions. That experience includes structuring and implementing deferred compensation, equity compensation, bonus compensation and incentive compensation plans and agreements as well as drafting transactional documentation, including employment, consulting, termination, change-in-control, severance and release agreements, as well as identifying issues arising under, and assisting in complying with, the Internal Revenue Code (including Sections 280G and 409A), federal securities laws, applicable exchange regulations and related corporate governance rules.
EDUCATION
Ms. Sharman received the Johnson Scholarship and was a Bonner Scholar at Washington and Lee University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics and a minor in Elementary Education, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Sharman then received a merit scholarship to attend the University of Notre Dame, where she earned a Master of Education degree while teaching elementary school full-time as an AmeriCorps volunteer. Ms. Sharman earned her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, where she was a Forum & Special Issue Editor for the Yale Law Journal and an Executive Editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. Ms. Sharman was awarded the annual Ralph K. Winter, Jr. Prize for Corporate Law.
Ms. Sharman is licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey, the State of New York and the State of Pennsylvania.