Executive Compensation & ERISA

Mr. Carleen is an executive compensation & ERISA partner and regularly advises corporations, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits, including ERISA and tax, employment and securities law matters. Advises in complex M&A, leveraged buyouts, private equity, hedge fund, bankruptcy and restructuring transactions. Specializes in structuring and negotiation of executive employment, severance and equity participation arrangements in M&A transactions.

Mr. Carleen joined Fried Frank in 1983 and became a partner in 1987.

Mr. Carleen is a member of Section on Taxation, Employee Benefits Committee, American Bar Association; The New York State Bar Association; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New Jersey Lawyer's Fund and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals.

JD, summa cum laude, Brooklyn Law School (1983); BA, St. Johns School of Risk Management (formerly The College of Insurance) (1977).