Scott E. Landau

Co-chair of Winston & Strawn’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, Scott Landau focuses on representing private equity clients and public companies in acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings within the U.S. and cross-border. He has experience structuring LLC profit interests as management incentives; negotiating limited liability company, shareholder, and employment agreements; counseling compensation, pension, and savings plan committees; advising on issues relating to Internal Revenue Code Section 409A compliance for domestic and foreign plans; designing executive compensation and nonqualified plan agreements; and counseling with respect to corporate governance matters.

Landau served as in-house counsel at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), where he led the domestic and international Employee Benefits and Compensation Legal Group. He also served as secretary and lead counsel to the BMS Pension and Savings Plan Committees.  

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