Bio

Alessandra Murata is co-chair of Cooley’s compensation & benefits practice group. Her practice focuses on counseling organizations and management – particularly within the technology, life sciences, private equity and REIT sectors – on executive compensation and benefits issues arising through mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, venture capital and leveraged buyout transactions and other transformative corporate events. She regularly advises clients on the adoption, revision and negotiation of executive employment and severance arrangements and on equity compensation arrangements, tax compliance and planning and SEC rules governing executive compensation disclosure and reporting. Ali is a contributing author of The 409A Handbook (BNA 2016) and speaks frequently on executive compensation matters. In 2016, Ali was named a Women on Influence by The Silicon Valley Business Journal based on her professional and civic achievements. Prior to joining Cooley, Ali was a partner at Goodwin Procter in their ERISA & executive compensation practice. Before Goodwin, she spent 11 years at Skadden as counsel in their executive compensation & benefits practice.