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Barbara Nims
Partner
Ms. Nims is a member of our Corporate Department. She advises clients on executive compensation, stock-based incentive, deferred compensation and pension plans and other employee benefit arrangements, with particular emphasis on issues arising in the contexts of merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization and bankruptcy and workout transactions. She also advises on pension investment and fiduciary considerations, employment and consulting arrangements, the applicability of federal securities and tax laws to executives and employees, and on general employment-related matters.
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Bar Admissions
  • State of New York
Education
  • B.S.N., Duke University, 1971
  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1983
    • Order of the Coif

Work Highlights

Mergers and Acquisitions Advice

  • The mergers of Chevron and Texaco, J.P. Morgan and Chase, Exxon and Mobil, and The St. Paul and Travelers
  • The acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting by IBM
  • The acquisition of Kinko’s by FedEx

Ms. Nims also advised J.P. Morgan in connection with the implementation of the Microsoft transferable option program.

Recognition

Ms. Nims is listed as a leading lawyer in several legal industry publications, including:

  • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
  • Practical Law Company’s Which lawyer? Yearbook and Labour and Employee Benefits
  • Legalease’s The Legal 500 (United States)
  • American Lawyer Media’s Corporate Counsel: Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Employee Benefits Law
Of Note

Past Membership

  • Co-Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, New York State Bar Association Tax Section
Professional History
  • Partner, 1992-present
  • Associate, 1983-1992
Publications
    1993
  • SEC Adopts New Rules on Executive Compensation | Securities & Commodities Regulation
    1994
  • Transferable Employee Stock Options—Selected Tax and Securities Law Issues | ERISA and Benefits Law Journal
    2002
  • The Re-Proposed 280G Regulations | Practising Law Institute Tax Law and Practice Course Handbook Series Number J-537
    1992
  • New Issues in Structuring Executive Compensation Under the Revised Section 16 Rules | ERISA and Benefits Law Journal