"An incredible partner to our team. She so capably weaves her expertise into our work. I know I will always get a thoughtful, practical and workable answer from Maj."
Chambers USA 2024
"Always provides excellent service with her delivery always appropriately tailored to the individual and audience."
Chambers USA 2024
"Does an excellent job handling complex and sophisticated matters for us. She is very responsive and a pleasure to work with."
Chambers USA 2024
"An excellent attorney who is very responsive."
Chambers USA 2023
"An absolute pleasure to work with. She's whip-smart and gets to the heart of issues very quickly."
Maj Vaseghi, Vice Chair of the firm's Public Company and Board Representation Practice, advises a wide variety of clients on corporate governance, executive compensation, and employee benefits, including:
Representation on ongoing executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including advising board compensation committees and senior executives with respect to employment arrangements, equity and cash-based incentive plans, deferred compensation plans, and preparation of proxy materials and other securities filings related to executive compensation matters
Corporate transactions, including M&A and IPOs, where she advises companies on employee benefit and executive compensation aspects, including negotiating transactional documents, drafting disclosures and identifying issues arising under, and assisting in complying with, the Internal Revenue Code, labor laws, federal and state securities laws and applicable exchange rules
Public company representation, including advising companies on corporate governance, securities law reporting and compliance, and proxy advisory and institutional stockholder voting guidelines
Maj leverages experience representing dozens of public companies across multiple industries and complementary perspectives on tax and securities matters to advise clients regarding their most sensitive issues.
Drawing on her previous role as in-house securities and corporate governance counsel at VMWare, Maj keenly understands the business issues that large public companies commonly face.
She frequently writes and speaks on executive compensation, corporate governance, and tax-related issues.
Experience
Maj’s experience includes representing:
Universal Music Group in its spinoff from Vivendi SE and listing of 60% of its share capital on Euronext Amsterdam at US$40 billion and concurrent sale of 10% of Vivendi’s holding in UMG to Pershing Square
Sitel Group in its US$2.2 billion take-private of Sykes Enterprises
LANXESS in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of the microbial control business of International Flavors & Fragrances
Western Union in the US$910 million sale of Western Union Business Solutions to Goldfinch Partners and Baupost Group
Zymergen in its IPO, conversion to a public benefit corporation and listing on Nasdaq, and acquisition of Lodo
TriNet in its acquisition of Zenefits from Francisco Partners
Rayner Surgical in its acquisition of OMIDRIA from Omeros
Agilent in its acquisition of Resolution Bioscience
America Movil on transactions to form a multibillion-dollar telecom JV with Liberty Latin America in Chile and to sell Claro Panama to Liberty Latin America
Royal Caribbean in its sale of Azamara
Belden in the sale of its individual cable business in Brazil to Yangtze Optical
Clever Leaves in its SPAC transaction with Schultze Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.
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