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Christine Osvald-Mruz

Partner

New Jersey
T: +1 973.597.2440 F: +1 973.597.2441 cmruz@lowenstein.com
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Christine Osvald-Mruz focuses her practice on executive compensation and employee benefits. In addition, she handles an array of limited liability company, partnership, and joint venture matters. Across her practice, Chris helps clients design, negotiate, and formalize ways of sharing in the value of a business.

Versatile and pragmatic in her approach, Chris asks incisive questions that enable her to assess the key issues and tailor the response to each client's particular needs.

Chris' work at Lowenstein Sandler includes equity compensation plans and incentives, phantom equity, bonus plans, executive employment agreements, and severance and change-in-control agreements. She advises on the compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and other complex corporate transactions. She also navigates clients through complex tax rules, particularly Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.

In the limited liability company area, Chris addresses relationships among owners, including economic rights as well as management and governance. Her projects include structuring operating companies to which owners may contribute capital, property, or services, and negotiating joint ventures. In constructing profit interest plans, Chris combines her experience in LLCs with her experience in executive compensation.

Compensation and Benefits Matters

  • Represented Cerity Partners in merger with Gamble Jones Investment Counsel, a California-based investment and wealth management firm managing roughly $1.8B in client assets.
  • Represented Cerity Partners in merger with Ashfield Capital Partners, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment and wealth management firm that manages approximately $1.9B in assets.
  • Represented Cerity Partners in merger with ARGI Financial Group LLC, a Kentucky-based investment and wealth management firm that oversees $4.8B in assets.
  • Represented an international company in the financial industry in its spin-off of a division, working with the in-house legal team on novel and complicated benefits and employment matters.
  • Represented a global leader in alternative investment in connection with its acquisition of a key strategic business, structuring awards of profits interests and phantom units, a key executive employment agreement and covenants agreement.
  • Regularly provides advice on management incentives, including structuring and drafting equity incentive plans, phantom stock plans, bonus arrangements, change-in-control agreements, and severance agreements for private and public companies.
  • Drafted and negotiated executive employment agreements for senior executives of a private company.

Partnership and LLC Matters

  • Represented an early-stage company creating a joint venture in the auto-lending industry, including negotiating limited liability company agreements.
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Education

  • Harvard Law School (J.D. 1995)

    Princeton University (A.B. 1992), magna cum laude

Affiliations

  • Princeton Alumni Schools Committee

Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey

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