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BOSTON MA 02210
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Jennifer Fay
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Position
Partner
Career
Jennifer Fay is a partner in Goodwin’s Employment practice and a former member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She is also a founding member of the firm’s Trade Secrets & Restrictive Covenants practice and she is the lead partner of Goodwin’s Pay Equity Initiative. Jennifer focuses her employment law practice on servicing the firm’s life sciences, technology, private equity/venture capitalist and financial services clients, as counselor, a litigator and an employment law compliance expert. She has developed a particular expertise in connection with CEO and other executive-level employment issues, including in the healthcare setting, complex workplace investigations, restrictive covenants, employee separations and reductions in force, and the development and implementation of proactive human resources strategies, including interactive workplace training. Jennifer dedicates much of her practice to investigations related to alleged discrimination/harassment, ethics and policy violations, founders’ disputes and whistleblower claims.
Jennifer is also one of the firm’s primary specialists on employment-related issues that arise in connection with transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, asset deals and financing events. She regularly advises clients regarding complex topic areas, including IRS Code Section 409A compliance with respect to employment arrangements, sophisticated employment arrangements (including for public company executives), bonus plans and equity compensation matters.
She has special expertise in the areas of restrictive covenants including noncompetition, nondisclosure and nonsolicitation agreements. Trade secret issues often come into sharpest focus when an employee leaves one company to start another or work for a competitor. Such cases raise trade secret issues for all parties involved. Jennifer regularly provides strategic counseling and litigation services to clients who find themselves in these circumstances.
Jennifer also has in-depth knowledge of worker classification, discrimination, harassment and anti-retaliation laws, pay equity legislation and other high priority areas of interest for employers. She applies her subject matter expertise while counseling clients, negotiating with opposing counsel, handling disputes including through mediation and litigation, and collaborating with the firm’s business law attorneys and clients.
Education
JD 1993 Suffolk University School of Law (magna cum laude); BA 1989 Boston College (cum laude)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
The Goodwin employment team has strong experience with regards to workplace investigations in sensitive sectors, such as the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and cybersecurity industries. The firm also has a strong disputes practice, which supports on issues arising in the workplace, such as harassment, discrimination, and termination. Robert Hale, practising in Boston, leads the team. Hale has an active consulting practice, covering workplace investigations, layoffs and wage and hour advice, amongst many others. Also in Boston, Bradford Smith advises on a broad range of labor and employment agreements, while Jennifer Fay dedicates her practice to high-level workplace investigations, concerning matters involving fraud, discrimination and harassment. At the San Francisco office, Koray Bulut is an expert in providing counsel on matters involving trade secrets and employee mobility, as well a range of dispute matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism