Evan is a seasoned employment and executive-compensation attorney, focusing his practice on virtually the entire range of the employer relationship. He has extensive experience representing individuals at the highest levels from virtually every industry across the United States, with a specific focus on executive officers and employees in financial services industry, including management teams, directors, hedge fund managers, and banking executives. In addition to individuals, his client also include institutions, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and research providers, in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship. Evan also has significant experience in the areas of executive compensation and employee benefits, and has frequently designed and drafted sophisticated compensation structures and plans. In addition to negotiating, drafting, and advising on agreements of all kinds, including sophisticated employment agreements, consulting and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenant clauses and agreements, confidentiality agreements, equity plan documents, and separation and release agreements, Evan also has experience litigating matters for both employers and employees in claims arising from employee/employer disputes, with experience in mediating, arbitrating and litigating claims in state and federal courts, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association and other private dispute-resolution organizations.

IEvan began his career as a litigation associate at Kaye Scholer LLP in 2002, and later worked at McCarter & English, Katten Muchen Rosenman, and Cadwalader, culminating in his work as a partner in the Executive Compensation and Benefits practice of McDermott Will & Emery, later McDermott Will & Schulte, LLP, from 2016 through 2026.

Evan is the author of “I Can’t Call Who? Employee Nonsolicitation of Clients Covenants Under New York Law,” published in the winter 2015 edition of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Journal, “The Devil in the Details: Termination Provision, Non-Competition Clauses” and “Finding the Balance Between Flexibility and Uniformity in Modern Executive Employment Agreements,” published in the 2013 edition of Inside the Minds, Negotiation and Drafting Employment Agreements, and “A Practitioner’s Guide to Negotiating Good Reason Clauses for Executives,” published in the September/October 2010 issue of Compensation & Benefits Review.