ROGER STERN
ROGER STERNPartner
Employee Benefits & Compensation
Roger Stern is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's employee benefits and compensation practice.
He focuses on designing, reviewing, and implementing a wide range of benefit and compensation programs structured to suit growth companies, as well as other manufacturing and service businesses. This experience has given Roger special expertise in the tax, securities, and accounting considerations applicable to these programs, with a particular emphasis on the unique issues faced by start-up and growth companies. Roger works with clients to structure compensation and benefit programs to cover the full range of equity and cash compensation arrangements, including stock options and purchase plans, 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), cafeteria plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and severance and other fringe-benefit arrangements. Roger also is actively engaged in counseling clients on fiduciary duty issues with respect to employee benefit plans.
Roger has written and spoken extensively on employee benefits and executive compensation issues.
EDUCATION:
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1989
Comment Editor, University of Chicago Legal Forum; Recipient, Bradley Fellowship in Legal History - B.A., General Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
With Distinction
- Selected for inclusion in the 2008-2012 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers
- Recognized by Chambers and Partners in its 2006-2012 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
- State Bar of California
