Ameena Y.Majid
Partner
Impact & Sustainability
amajid@seyfarth.com
Ameena believes profits and purpose are interwoven through Impact and helps her clients challenge the status quo every day for the greater good of business.
More About Ameena
Ameena is a highly trained and skilled executive compensation and employee benefit lawyer who, through her personal endeavors and business acumen, has transformed her practice to providing clients with cutting edge strategic consulting, advice, and counsel through an impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens. She partners with her clients to navigate and drive business goals centered around the quickly evolving and complex ESG landscape in today’s fractured business setting.
Ameena takes a practical approach to helping clients with their impact initiatives by meeting them where they are in their journey. She helps identify and educate a client’s impact footprint; organize and grow programs; and provides practical implementation to navigate policies and reporting, all while never losing sight of the expectations of varied stakeholders or the details of the issues at hand. She’s a high level thinker that doesn’t lose sight of the future forward.
For more than 20 years, Ameena has helped clients navigate corporate and fiduciary governance and technical complexities of executive compensation and employee benefits for Fortune 20 to 500 companies, across a variety of industries. She understands that compensation and benefits form the core of a talent retention strategy. She helps her clients provide incentives that align with their company values, and foster a culture that helps them attract, and more importantly, retain their employees. As ESG continues to be a topic for boards of directors, the link to executive compensation is being discussed and scrutinized. Ameena assists companies with designing competitive executive compensation and employee benefit offerings that are compliant, competitive, and communicated in ways that protect the company, and make employees feel invested in the company's success. When an employment relationship ends, and severance is offered, Ameena strategizes with her clients to design a severance package tailored to the client’s particular interests at issue in the termination.
Further, as an advisory board member to, and impact investor in, Able Made PBC, a Delaware B corporation and sustainably forward fashion brand, Ameena brings a business, growth and pragmatic mindset to her legal practice as companies respond to heightened expectations for integrating both environmental and human rights decisions into cultivating ethical supply chains.
This experience, her public company practice and proxy work, combined with her prior anti-modern slavery advocacy work with Stop the Traffik USA, gives Ameena a unique background and heightened sensitivity to advice on impact and ESG disclosures, associated legal risks, governance considerations, due diligence approaches to support disclosures and the link to executive compensation.
Ameena is also the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Impact and ESG practice group. In this role, she leads a dynamic trans-disciplinary group that is at the forefront of providing integrated advice and counsel on implementing practical ESG and related multi-stakeholder principles into a long-term business strategy that builds resiliency.
Ameena's approach to her practice was formed in her childhood. As the youngest of immigrant parents, she was raised between two cultures that did not always externally align. This background has made her an observer, and she takes in information before stepping into any situation to meet people where they are. Ameena is also the sister to a disabled brother. These roles have given her a deep sense of empathy and an ability to see the nuances of any situation or person. Ameena's empathetic nature combined with decades of experience in the counseling practice enables her to quickly sift through the substance, process, and emotion of a given matter or situation. As a counselor, Ameena adheres to the basic tenets of respect, seeking to understand the larger business context and goals, and listening first to guide her clients.
Ameena takes a practical approach to helping clients with their impact initiatives by meeting them where they are in their journey. She helps identify and educate a client’s impact footprint; organize and grow programs; and provides practical implementation to navigate policies and reporting, all while never losing sight of the expectations of varied stakeholders or the details of the issues at hand. She’s a high level thinker that doesn’t lose sight of the future forward.
For more than 20 years, Ameena has helped clients navigate corporate and fiduciary governance and technical complexities of executive compensation and employee benefits for Fortune 20 to 500 companies, across a variety of industries. She understands that compensation and benefits form the core of a talent retention strategy. She helps her clients provide incentives that align with their company values, and foster a culture that helps them attract, and more importantly, retain their employees. As ESG continues to be a topic for boards of directors, the link to executive compensation is being discussed and scrutinized. Ameena assists companies with designing competitive executive compensation and employee benefit offerings that are compliant, competitive, and communicated in ways that protect the company, and make employees feel invested in the company's success. When an employment relationship ends, and severance is offered, Ameena strategizes with her clients to design a severance package tailored to the client’s particular interests at issue in the termination.
Further, as an advisory board member to, and impact investor in, Able Made PBC, a Delaware B corporation and sustainably forward fashion brand, Ameena brings a business, growth and pragmatic mindset to her legal practice as companies respond to heightened expectations for integrating both environmental and human rights decisions into cultivating ethical supply chains.
This experience, her public company practice and proxy work, combined with her prior anti-modern slavery advocacy work with Stop the Traffik USA, gives Ameena a unique background and heightened sensitivity to advice on impact and ESG disclosures, associated legal risks, governance considerations, due diligence approaches to support disclosures and the link to executive compensation.
Ameena is also the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Impact and ESG practice group. In this role, she leads a dynamic trans-disciplinary group that is at the forefront of providing integrated advice and counsel on implementing practical ESG and related multi-stakeholder principles into a long-term business strategy that builds resiliency.
Ameena's approach to her practice was formed in her childhood. As the youngest of immigrant parents, she was raised between two cultures that did not always externally align. This background has made her an observer, and she takes in information before stepping into any situation to meet people where they are. Ameena is also the sister to a disabled brother. These roles have given her a deep sense of empathy and an ability to see the nuances of any situation or person. Ameena's empathetic nature combined with decades of experience in the counseling practice enables her to quickly sift through the substance, process, and emotion of a given matter or situation. As a counselor, Ameena adheres to the basic tenets of respect, seeking to understand the larger business context and goals, and listening first to guide her clients.
- JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- BA, University of Iowa
- Illinois
Blogs
- Developed ESG priority analysis and conducted stakeholder meetings to inform the ESG footprint for a top 30 US asset management and banking firm, including architected, organized, and drafted its first ESG report
- ESG education for the business and/or in house legal teams and Board training
- Provides strategic advice and counsel on governance of ESG topics and policies, including human rights policies and procedures
- Crafts and advises on the evolution of ESG-related contract provisions across ESG topics given the changing nature of value chain partners from transactional to interdependent
- Regularly informs, prepares and guides disclosures across the ESG spectrum of topics
- Converted entities to a Delaware public benefit corporation ("B corp").
- Advised several companies on the design of their fiduciary governance structure, including advising on committee structure, committee membership, by-laws, training, and documentation.
- Counseled senior management and compensation committees on design, taxation, and securities-related matters for various equity and deferred compensation arrangements.
Related News & Insights
-
Recognition
11/25/2024
Ameena Majid Honored as a 2024 US Green Ambassador by Legal 500
-
Attorney Publication
11/20/2024
Ameena Majid and Giovanna Ferrari Write on Potential Impact of Trump Administration on Climate Reporting in Law360
-
Webinar Recording
Nov 20, 2024
Winning Combinations Webinar Series Recordings: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law
-
Media Mentions
11/12/2024
Seyfarth's Legal Update on Impact of Trump Presidency on Climate Reporting Highlighted in Chief Investment Officer
- Recognized as one of Chicago’s Top 40 Under 40 "Rising Stars" by the National Law Journal (ALM Media Properties LLC) (2013)
- Received the "Top 20 Most Powerful and Influential Women of Illinois" award from the National Diversity Council (2012)
-
Able Made PBC advisory board
-
American Bar Association (Business Law Section; Civil Rights and Social Justice Section)
- Impact Engine Ventures
- Top Tier Impact
- Co-Author, "What Trump Presidency May Mean For Climate Reporting," Law360 (November 20, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Election 2024 Labor & Employment Special Report,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 11, 2024)
- Co-Author, "What Does a Trump Presidency Mean for Mandatory Climate Reporting?" Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 6, 2024)
- Co-Author, "California Mandatory Climate Disclosure Laws Move Forward With Little Concession," Westlaw Today (September 24, 2024)
- Co-Author, “California Mandatory Climate Disclosure Laws Move Forward With Little Concession,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 19, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Criminal Risk from Tainted Production and Supply Chains,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 26, 2024)
- Co-Author, “EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Raising the Stakes on ESG Regulations,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 3, 2024)
- Co-Author, "Final SEC Climate Disclosure Rules Greeted with Mixed Emotions and Lawsuits: What Your Company Needs to Know," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 13, 2024)
- Co-Author, "2023 Human Capital Disclosure Report: In Betwixt and Between," Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 5, 2024)
- Co-Author, "The Rise in ESG Litigation," 2024 Commercial Litigation Outlook, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 2024)
- Co-Author, "New California Laws Mandate Climate Disclosures For Both Private and Public Companies," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 19, 2023)
- Co-Author, "2022 Human Capital Disclosure Report: Moving Forward While Still Waiting," Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 21, 2023)
- Co-Author, "Modern Slavery Reporting in Australia: What Businesses Ought to Know," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 1, 2022)
- Co-Author, "Misleading Statements, Including ESG Pronouncements, Land One of the World’s Largest Iron Ore Producers in Hot Water with the SEC," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 10, 2022)
- Co-Author, "It’s Here - The Move from Voluntary to Mandatory ESG Disclosures Begins with Climate," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 23, 2022)
- Co-Author, "Supreme Court Opinion Suggests US Corporations Are Not Immune From Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 23, 2021)
- Co-Author, "Building an ESG Strategy: The Role of the Board and Executive Compensation [Part 4 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 15, 2020)
- Co-Author, "ESG Disclosures: Lessons Learned and Best Practices [Part 3 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 9, 2020)
- Author, "Getting into the ESG Disclosure, Rating and Ranking Game [Part 2 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 1, 2020)
- Author, "ESG: The Building Blocks of a Sustainable and Resilient Business Strategy [Part 1 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 27, 2020)
- Co-Author, "Are Energy Investments Triggering ESG Restrictions," Bloomberg Law Insights (July 31, 2020)
- Co-Author, "CARES Act Relief: Cash is Coming . . . with Freezes on Executive Pay, Buybacks and Dividends," Beneficially Yours Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 28, 2020)
- Co-Author, "Building a Modern Slavery Strategy," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 19, 2019)
- Co-Author, "Modern Slavery: The Dilemma of Internal Accountability and Resource Allocation," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 6, 2019)
- Co-Author, "The Company You Keep – Engagement & Reputational Risk," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 29, 2019)
- Co-Author, "Setting the Stage – Myths and Misunderstandings of Modern Slavery and Business," Employment Law Lookout, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 16, 2019)
- Co-Author, "The New Transparency: Using Collaboration and Technology to Help Address Modern Slavery," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 2, 2018); Future Enterprise Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 23, 2018); Workplace Law & Strategy Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 30, 2018)
- Author, "Impact Investing and 401(k) Plans: A Friendship in the Making?," Future Employer Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 15, 2018)
- Co-Author, "Senate and House Reconcile their Versions of Tax Reform," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 21, 2017); Tax Reform Management Alert Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 21, 2017)
- Co-Author, "Tax Reform Passes the Next Hurdle -- The Senate," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 8, 2017);Tax Reform Management Alert Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 8, 2017)
- Co-Author, "Tax Reform: Employee Benefits," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 21, 2017);Tax Reform Management Alert Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 21, 2017)
- Co-Author, "Executive Compensation Updates: NYSE AND NASDAQ Propose Independence Standards for Compensation Committees and Consultants and ISS 2013 Proxy Guidelines," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 7, 2013); Management Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 7, 2013)
- Co-Presenter, “Winning Combinations: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 31, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, “Webinar Series: Winning Combinations: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law Session 2: Navigating FAR Compliance: Sustainable Sourcing Strategies,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 23, 2024)
- Co-Speaker, “Health Care Beat Episode 43 - The ESG Landscape: Key Takeaways for the Health Care Industry,” Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 24, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, "Webinar Recording: Navigating the DEI and ESG Landscape: Balancing Opportunity and Risks," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 2, 2023)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast – ESG and Real Estate: A Value Proposition, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 11, 2022)
- Panel Speaker, "Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom, Courts and the Legal Profession," New York County Lawyers Association on Diversity (January 29, 2021)
-
TEDx Farmingdale, "Profit Meets Purpose: Investing in Human Rights" (October 10, 2020)
- Co-Presenter, "Managing Your Workforce Through the Current Social and Political Climate," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2020); Webinar Recording
- Co-Presenter, "Navigating ESG Disclosures, Risks and Incentives in COVID-19," Webinar (September 30, 2020)
- Co-Presenter, "Human Trafficking: How Business, Law Enforcement, NGOs and Government Can Help End Modern Slavery," Combating Human Trafficking: Using Tech to Combat Modern-day Slavery Panel, hosted by UN Women Chicago, PyLadies, the CBA’s Human Trafficking Committee and the Alliance for Women (February 27, 2019)
- Co-Presenter, "2014 Proxy Season: Checking In and Looking Ahead," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 13, 2014)
- Co-Presenter, "Making the Most of the New §409A Correction Procedures," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 24, 2010)
- Quoted, "Invesco Pays $17.5M Fine to Settle SEC Greenwashing Charges," Chief Investment Officer (November 12, 2024)
- Quoted, "The stage is set for a battle on sustainable investing," Axios (July 31, 2020)
- Quoted, "Bridging the Gap Between Purpose and Profit: Blazing a new trail for human rights," Thrive Global (January 14, 2020)
- Stop the Traffik USA director, 2016-present
Ameena believes profits and purpose are interwoven through Impact and helps her clients challenge the status quo every day for the greater good of business.
More About Ameena
Ameena is a highly trained and skilled executive compensation and employee benefit lawyer who, through her personal endeavors and business acumen, has transformed her practice to providing clients with cutting edge strategic consulting, advice, and counsel through an impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens. She partners with her clients to navigate and drive business goals centered around the quickly evolving and complex ESG landscape in today’s fractured business setting.
Ameena takes a practical approach to helping clients with their impact initiatives by meeting them where they are in their journey. She helps identify and educate a client’s impact footprint; organize and grow programs; and provides practical implementation to navigate policies and reporting, all while never losing sight of the expectations of varied stakeholders or the details of the issues at hand. She’s a high level thinker that doesn’t lose sight of the future forward.
For more than 20 years, Ameena has helped clients navigate corporate and fiduciary governance and technical complexities of executive compensation and employee benefits for Fortune 20 to 500 companies, across a variety of industries. She understands that compensation and benefits form the core of a talent retention strategy. She helps her clients provide incentives that align with their company values, and foster a culture that helps them attract, and more importantly, retain their employees. As ESG continues to be a topic for boards of directors, the link to executive compensation is being discussed and scrutinized. Ameena assists companies with designing competitive executive compensation and employee benefit offerings that are compliant, competitive, and communicated in ways that protect the company, and make employees feel invested in the company's success. When an employment relationship ends, and severance is offered, Ameena strategizes with her clients to design a severance package tailored to the client’s particular interests at issue in the termination.
Further, as an advisory board member to, and impact investor in, Able Made PBC, a Delaware B corporation and sustainably forward fashion brand, Ameena brings a business, growth and pragmatic mindset to her legal practice as companies respond to heightened expectations for integrating both environmental and human rights decisions into cultivating ethical supply chains.
This experience, her public company practice and proxy work, combined with her prior anti-modern slavery advocacy work with Stop the Traffik USA, gives Ameena a unique background and heightened sensitivity to advice on impact and ESG disclosures, associated legal risks, governance considerations, due diligence approaches to support disclosures and the link to executive compensation.
Ameena is also the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Impact and ESG practice group. In this role, she leads a dynamic trans-disciplinary group that is at the forefront of providing integrated advice and counsel on implementing practical ESG and related multi-stakeholder principles into a long-term business strategy that builds resiliency.
Ameena's approach to her practice was formed in her childhood. As the youngest of immigrant parents, she was raised between two cultures that did not always externally align. This background has made her an observer, and she takes in information before stepping into any situation to meet people where they are. Ameena is also the sister to a disabled brother. These roles have given her a deep sense of empathy and an ability to see the nuances of any situation or person. Ameena's empathetic nature combined with decades of experience in the counseling practice enables her to quickly sift through the substance, process, and emotion of a given matter or situation. As a counselor, Ameena adheres to the basic tenets of respect, seeking to understand the larger business context and goals, and listening first to guide her clients.
Ameena takes a practical approach to helping clients with their impact initiatives by meeting them where they are in their journey. She helps identify and educate a client’s impact footprint; organize and grow programs; and provides practical implementation to navigate policies and reporting, all while never losing sight of the expectations of varied stakeholders or the details of the issues at hand. She’s a high level thinker that doesn’t lose sight of the future forward.
For more than 20 years, Ameena has helped clients navigate corporate and fiduciary governance and technical complexities of executive compensation and employee benefits for Fortune 20 to 500 companies, across a variety of industries. She understands that compensation and benefits form the core of a talent retention strategy. She helps her clients provide incentives that align with their company values, and foster a culture that helps them attract, and more importantly, retain their employees. As ESG continues to be a topic for boards of directors, the link to executive compensation is being discussed and scrutinized. Ameena assists companies with designing competitive executive compensation and employee benefit offerings that are compliant, competitive, and communicated in ways that protect the company, and make employees feel invested in the company's success. When an employment relationship ends, and severance is offered, Ameena strategizes with her clients to design a severance package tailored to the client’s particular interests at issue in the termination.
Further, as an advisory board member to, and impact investor in, Able Made PBC, a Delaware B corporation and sustainably forward fashion brand, Ameena brings a business, growth and pragmatic mindset to her legal practice as companies respond to heightened expectations for integrating both environmental and human rights decisions into cultivating ethical supply chains.
This experience, her public company practice and proxy work, combined with her prior anti-modern slavery advocacy work with Stop the Traffik USA, gives Ameena a unique background and heightened sensitivity to advice on impact and ESG disclosures, associated legal risks, governance considerations, due diligence approaches to support disclosures and the link to executive compensation.
Ameena is also the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Impact and ESG practice group. In this role, she leads a dynamic trans-disciplinary group that is at the forefront of providing integrated advice and counsel on implementing practical ESG and related multi-stakeholder principles into a long-term business strategy that builds resiliency.
Ameena's approach to her practice was formed in her childhood. As the youngest of immigrant parents, she was raised between two cultures that did not always externally align. This background has made her an observer, and she takes in information before stepping into any situation to meet people where they are. Ameena is also the sister to a disabled brother. These roles have given her a deep sense of empathy and an ability to see the nuances of any situation or person. Ameena's empathetic nature combined with decades of experience in the counseling practice enables her to quickly sift through the substance, process, and emotion of a given matter or situation. As a counselor, Ameena adheres to the basic tenets of respect, seeking to understand the larger business context and goals, and listening first to guide her clients.
- JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- BA, University of Iowa
- Illinois
Blogs
- Developed ESG priority analysis and conducted stakeholder meetings to inform the ESG footprint for a top 30 US asset management and banking firm, including architected, organized, and drafted its first ESG report
- ESG education for the business and/or in house legal teams and Board training
- Provides strategic advice and counsel on governance of ESG topics and policies, including human rights policies and procedures
- Crafts and advises on the evolution of ESG-related contract provisions across ESG topics given the changing nature of value chain partners from transactional to interdependent
- Regularly informs, prepares and guides disclosures across the ESG spectrum of topics
- Converted entities to a Delaware public benefit corporation ("B corp").
- Advised several companies on the design of their fiduciary governance structure, including advising on committee structure, committee membership, by-laws, training, and documentation.
- Counseled senior management and compensation committees on design, taxation, and securities-related matters for various equity and deferred compensation arrangements.
Related News & Insights
-
Recognition
11/25/2024
Ameena Majid Honored as a 2024 US Green Ambassador by Legal 500
-
Attorney Publication
11/20/2024
Ameena Majid and Giovanna Ferrari Write on Potential Impact of Trump Administration on Climate Reporting in Law360
-
Webinar Recording
Nov 20, 2024
Winning Combinations Webinar Series Recordings: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law
-
Media Mentions
11/12/2024
Seyfarth's Legal Update on Impact of Trump Presidency on Climate Reporting Highlighted in Chief Investment Officer
- Recognized as one of Chicago’s Top 40 Under 40 "Rising Stars" by the National Law Journal (ALM Media Properties LLC) (2013)
- Received the "Top 20 Most Powerful and Influential Women of Illinois" award from the National Diversity Council (2012)
-
Able Made PBC advisory board
-
American Bar Association (Business Law Section; Civil Rights and Social Justice Section)
- Impact Engine Ventures
- Top Tier Impact
- Co-Author, "What Trump Presidency May Mean For Climate Reporting," Law360 (November 20, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Election 2024 Labor & Employment Special Report,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 11, 2024)
- Co-Author, "What Does a Trump Presidency Mean for Mandatory Climate Reporting?" Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 6, 2024)
- Co-Author, "California Mandatory Climate Disclosure Laws Move Forward With Little Concession," Westlaw Today (September 24, 2024)
- Co-Author, “California Mandatory Climate Disclosure Laws Move Forward With Little Concession,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 19, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Criminal Risk from Tainted Production and Supply Chains,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 26, 2024)
- Co-Author, “EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Raising the Stakes on ESG Regulations,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 3, 2024)
- Co-Author, "Final SEC Climate Disclosure Rules Greeted with Mixed Emotions and Lawsuits: What Your Company Needs to Know," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 13, 2024)
- Co-Author, "2023 Human Capital Disclosure Report: In Betwixt and Between," Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 5, 2024)
- Co-Author, "The Rise in ESG Litigation," 2024 Commercial Litigation Outlook, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 2024)
- Co-Author, "New California Laws Mandate Climate Disclosures For Both Private and Public Companies," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 19, 2023)
- Co-Author, "2022 Human Capital Disclosure Report: Moving Forward While Still Waiting," Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 21, 2023)
- Co-Author, "Modern Slavery Reporting in Australia: What Businesses Ought to Know," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 1, 2022)
- Co-Author, "Misleading Statements, Including ESG Pronouncements, Land One of the World’s Largest Iron Ore Producers in Hot Water with the SEC," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 10, 2022)
- Co-Author, "It’s Here - The Move from Voluntary to Mandatory ESG Disclosures Begins with Climate," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 23, 2022)
- Co-Author, "Supreme Court Opinion Suggests US Corporations Are Not Immune From Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 23, 2021)
- Co-Author, "Building an ESG Strategy: The Role of the Board and Executive Compensation [Part 4 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 15, 2020)
- Co-Author, "ESG Disclosures: Lessons Learned and Best Practices [Part 3 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 9, 2020)
- Author, "Getting into the ESG Disclosure, Rating and Ranking Game [Part 2 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 1, 2020)
- Author, "ESG: The Building Blocks of a Sustainable and Resilient Business Strategy [Part 1 of 4]," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 27, 2020)
- Co-Author, "Are Energy Investments Triggering ESG Restrictions," Bloomberg Law Insights (July 31, 2020)
- Co-Author, "CARES Act Relief: Cash is Coming . . . with Freezes on Executive Pay, Buybacks and Dividends," Beneficially Yours Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 28, 2020)
- Co-Author, "Building a Modern Slavery Strategy," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 19, 2019)
- Co-Author, "Modern Slavery: The Dilemma of Internal Accountability and Resource Allocation," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 6, 2019)
- Co-Author, "The Company You Keep – Engagement & Reputational Risk," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 29, 2019)
- Co-Author, "Setting the Stage – Myths and Misunderstandings of Modern Slavery and Business," Employment Law Lookout, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 16, 2019)
- Co-Author, "The New Transparency: Using Collaboration and Technology to Help Address Modern Slavery," Employment Law Lookout Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 2, 2018); Future Enterprise Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 23, 2018); Workplace Law & Strategy Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 30, 2018)
- Author, "Impact Investing and 401(k) Plans: A Friendship in the Making?," Future Employer Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 15, 2018)
- Co-Author, "Senate and House Reconcile their Versions of Tax Reform," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 21, 2017); Tax Reform Management Alert Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 21, 2017)
- Co-Author, "Tax Reform Passes the Next Hurdle -- The Senate," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 8, 2017);Tax Reform Management Alert Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 8, 2017)
- Co-Author, "Tax Reform: Employee Benefits," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 21, 2017);Tax Reform Management Alert Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 21, 2017)
- Co-Author, "Executive Compensation Updates: NYSE AND NASDAQ Propose Independence Standards for Compensation Committees and Consultants and ISS 2013 Proxy Guidelines," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 7, 2013); Management Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 7, 2013)
- Co-Presenter, “Winning Combinations: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 31, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, “Webinar Series: Winning Combinations: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law Session 2: Navigating FAR Compliance: Sustainable Sourcing Strategies,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 23, 2024)
- Co-Speaker, “Health Care Beat Episode 43 - The ESG Landscape: Key Takeaways for the Health Care Industry,” Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 24, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, "Webinar Recording: Navigating the DEI and ESG Landscape: Balancing Opportunity and Risks," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 2, 2023)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast – ESG and Real Estate: A Value Proposition, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 11, 2022)
- Panel Speaker, "Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom, Courts and the Legal Profession," New York County Lawyers Association on Diversity (January 29, 2021)
-
TEDx Farmingdale, "Profit Meets Purpose: Investing in Human Rights" (October 10, 2020)
- Co-Presenter, "Managing Your Workforce Through the Current Social and Political Climate," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2020); Webinar Recording
- Co-Presenter, "Navigating ESG Disclosures, Risks and Incentives in COVID-19," Webinar (September 30, 2020)
- Co-Presenter, "Human Trafficking: How Business, Law Enforcement, NGOs and Government Can Help End Modern Slavery," Combating Human Trafficking: Using Tech to Combat Modern-day Slavery Panel, hosted by UN Women Chicago, PyLadies, the CBA’s Human Trafficking Committee and the Alliance for Women (February 27, 2019)
- Co-Presenter, "2014 Proxy Season: Checking In and Looking Ahead," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 13, 2014)
- Co-Presenter, "Making the Most of the New §409A Correction Procedures," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 24, 2010)
- Quoted, "Invesco Pays $17.5M Fine to Settle SEC Greenwashing Charges," Chief Investment Officer (November 12, 2024)
- Quoted, "The stage is set for a battle on sustainable investing," Axios (July 31, 2020)
- Quoted, "Bridging the Gap Between Purpose and Profit: Blazing a new trail for human rights," Thrive Global (January 14, 2020)
- Stop the Traffik USA director, 2016-present