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Pamela Onufer is an associate in Proskauer’s Labor and Employment Law Department, resident in the Newark office. She has experience with a wide range of benefits and compensation-related legal issues, executive compensation and pension plan investments.
Pamela's executive compensation practice involves representing both executives and companies in designing, drafting and negotiating employment agreements, separation agreements, equity compensation plans and similar arrangements. Pamela also advises corporations on the design and implementation of stock option, restricted stock and similar plans and has experience with respect to employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
In the plan investments field, Pamela advises private equity fund clients regarding ERISA's “plan assets” regulation, as well as ERISA's fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules. She also represents pension plans and other institutional clients in reviewing ERISA and other issues raised by their investments in private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investments.
Pamela provides day-to-day guidance to financial service industry clients handling a variety of projects, such as the design of products targeted to pension funds and the negotiation of various agreements involving derivatives, prime brokerage, portfolio transition services and securities lending. She also assists financial service industry clients in obtaining individual prohibited transaction exemptions from the Department of Labor.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Pamela clerked for Judge Frederick J. Scullin of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Pamela graduated summa cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law and received her B.A. from Binghamton University.
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