Monica Patel is a partner in the firm’s ERISA & Executive Compensation practice. Monica advises a wide variety of clients, including both public and private companies, on employee benefit and compensation issues, as well as tax and securities law issues, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, financings, initial public offerings and other corporate transactions. In addition, she represents employers and executives in the negotiation, design and implementation of employment, severance and change in control arrangements, deferred compensation plans, and equity and other incentive compensation plans and arrangements.
Representative Matters
- Advising companies, such as Astera Labs, Okta, Poshmark, Slack, and ThredUp on executive compensation disclosure requirements
- Segment.io in its $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio
- BlueJeans Network in connection with its acquisition by Verizon
- Lyft in numerous acquisition transactions
- Okta in numerous acquisition transactions
- PillPack in its sale to Amazon.com
- Semantic Machines in its sale to Microsoft Corporation
- Lynda.com in its $1.5 billion sale to LinkedIn
- Trulia in its $3.5 billion sale to Zillow
- Public companies: Astera Labs, Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Olo, and ThredUp
- Private companies: Harness, Inflection AI, Poshmark, Rippling, and Scale
Areas of Practice
Credentials
Education
JD
University of Minnesota Law School
BA
University of California, Berkeley
Admissions
Bars
- California
Recognition & Awards
Monica is recommended for Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional by The Legal 500 United States. While attending law school, Monica was a managing editor for the Minnesota Law Review.