Christine Osvald-Mruz is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group. She structures, drafts and negotiates executive employment agreements, severance arrangements, stock option plans and other forms of equity compensation and incentive plans. She helps clients navigate the application of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code to deferred compensation arrangements. Ms. Osvald-Mruz also advises clients on the development, implementation and administration of tax-qualified retirement plans and welfare benefit plans.
Ms. Osvald-Mruz counsels a range of clients on compensation and benefits matters, including mid-sized private companies, large public companies and individual executives. She provides advice regarding compensation and benefits issues that arise on a day-to-day basis as well as those that arise in major corporate transactions.
A diverse background in corporate transactional matters and corporate counseling lends broad perspective and context to Ms. Osvald-Mruz's current focus in the executive compensation and employee benefits practice area. Her experience of more than 12 years includes mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, angel investments, business planning, partnership and limited liability company law, and securities regulation.
Ms. Osvald-Mruz demonstrates a commitment to women's professional success. She is Co-chair of STRIDES, Advancing Women in Business, an initiative sponsored by Lowenstein Sandler PC with a mission of promoting visibility and leadership for women in business through quality networking events fostering the creative exchange of ideas and information. She also serves as a firm representative to the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force of the Center for Work-Life Policy. In addition, she participates in the National Association of Women Lawyers, the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and Flex-Time Lawyers.
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Lowenstein Sandler is highlighted for its diversity and diversity programs; and Mary Hildebrand and Christine Osvald-Mruz discuss STRIDES, the firm's networking program for women in business, as well as the firm's membership in the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force (a project of the Center for Work-Life Policy), which is conducting a study on how the business community can realize the assets of women and minority employees.,
New Jersey Law Journal, September 22, 2008
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