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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 15 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.
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IRS Addresses Section 409A Document Corrections
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Alert, May 2010
Christine Osvald-Mruz,
Andrew Graw
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The Health Reform Law - In a Nutshell
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Alert, May 2010
Andrew Graw,
Christine Osvald-Mruz,
Richard Plumpton
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Pension Plan Termination Premium Claims May Not Be Dischargeable in Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors' Rights Client Alert, December 21, 2009
Sharon Levine,
Christine Osvald-Mruz,
Wojciech Jung
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Lowenstein Sandler is highlighted for its diversity and diversity programs; 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 conducts studies 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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Harvard Law School
(J.D., 1995)
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Princeton University
(A.B., 1992),
magna cum laude
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New Jersey
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New York
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- Co-Chair, STRIDES, Advancing Women in Business
- National Association of Women Lawyers
- New Jersey Women Lawyers Association
- Law & Reorder
- American Bar Association
- Princeton Alumni Schools Committee
- Pack Committee Chair, Cub Scout Pack 125
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