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Precious Nwankwo

Associate

New York

+1 212-294-1779

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Precious focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation with additional experience in a range of transactional, securities, and corporate governance matters.

Precious Nwankwo is an associate in the New York office who advises clients on a broad array of executive compensation and employee benefits matters. Her practice focuses on the design and implementation of compensation-related arrangements, including equity incentive plans and executive employment and severance agreements. She advises publicly traded companies, boards of directors and compensation committees on the rules governing compensation-related disclosures, equity registration requirements and compliance with related rules under stock exchange listing standards.

Precious has also advised domestic and international clients on the executive compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and has maintained a practice advising corporate clients on employment issues, including personnel policies and employee handbooks.

Recent Experience

Drilling Tools International Corp. in its Acquisition of European Drilling Projects
Picard Medical and its Subsidiary, SynCardia Systems, Announce Business Combination with Altitude Acquisition Corp.

Precious has been selected to participate in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD) 2024 Fellows Program. 

Capabilities

Labor & Employment
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Mergers & Acquisitions
Public Companies

Recent Experience

Drilling Tools International Corp. in its Acquisition of European Drilling Projects
Picard Medical and its Subsidiary, SynCardia Systems, Announce Business Combination with Altitude Acquisition Corp.

Credentials

Education

Precious received her J.D. from Boston College Law School, where she was a Senior Editor for the Boston College Law Review. She received her B.A., with honors, from Harvard University.

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