Drew Baker Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Us

London, Gb

Assist with buy-side due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs for clients primarily in the financial services sector. • Responsibilities include authoring due diligence reports, analyzing short- and long-term incentive plans for tax code compliance, calculating costs associated with buy-side go-forward plans, and reviewing and summarizing employment contracts, benefit plan documents, and organizational agreements. • Calculate excess “golden parachute” payments under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code for large public and private businesses with complex compensation models and, as appropriate, recommend mitigation strategies for individuals subject to possible excise taxes. • Author and review plan documents, informational materials, and offer letters for international clients that issue stock-based compensation to US taxpayers to ensure compliance with US tax laws and reporting requirements. • Review audit reports of publicly traded companies for compliance with executive compensation reporting requirements under the Securities Act and SEC regulations. • As a summer associate, prepared memoranda analyzing the proposed Section 162(m) regulations, focusing on predecessor corporations for the purpose of determining covered employees and application of the grandfather rule.

London, Gb

Dallas, Texas, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

London, Gb

Intern with the special Project Main Street that helped a large financial client with implementing and carrying out projects related to the third Covid Relief Bill.

London, Gb

*Prepared memoranda analyzing the newly proposed 162(m) regulations, focusing particularly on predecessor corporations for the purpose of determining covered employees and the application of the grandfather rule. *Researched the consequences of 280G “golden parachute” payments as related to executives employed by a publicly traded partnership that was a subsidiary of a publicly traded corporation and the tax consequences for each entity.*Reviewed informational reports for international clients regarding retirement tax consequences as well as employment and payroll taxes. *Assisted with reviewing an audit report as it related to executive renumeration and the various required disclosures.*Assisted in drafting recommendations, disclosures, and informational memos for multiple corporate clients.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Researching the ongoing state of virtual court proceedings in Texas during the Covid-19 crisis with Professor Elizabeth Thornburg, Richard R. Lee Endowed Professor of Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor. Along with other RAs compiled reports on virtual court proceedings focused on numerous data points including technological issues, proficiency, and comfort for both the court staff and practicing attorneys.

Beaverton, Or, Us

*Created and implemented operations best practices during, and after, the new store grand opening *Duties included partnering with corporate teams to ensure processes during store construction and design were completed properly on site, also partnering with procurement and buying teams to ensure sales-floor product and store supplies were correctly ordered and shipped*Partnered with corporate recruiters to plan and facilitate the hiring process in the store. Interviewed 400+ candidates, hired 60, completed on-boarding and helped create the agenda for the four-day welcome and training sessions*Mentored the operations coach who would take over the role throughout this process, teaching him the Nike standards, and sharing best practices for ensuring a store’s operational success

Beaverton, Or, Us

*As operations manager oversaw the daily HR and logistical operations of a retail store with 70+ employees*Created weekly work schedules for current employees, oversaw and ensured compliance with store payroll goals, created store sales forecasts, and was a liason between employees and the corporate HR team*Helped create joint recruiting process for two stores during holiday season where we interviewed 300+ candidates for 60 positions, and took the lead with interview follow-ups, new-hire paperwork, and organizing the training event

Beaverton, Or, Us

*As product manager oversaw the daily operations of the sales floor in an $11+ million retail store*Hired, on-boarded, and oversaw the continued development of two department leads who reported directly to me*Drove a 4% sales increase YOY in 2016, and a 2% increase YOY despite 8% decrease in traffic in first half of 2017*Created and lead a four week merchandising principles training course for full-time product employees in my store that was then distributed and taught throughout the seven other stores in our retail district

Beaverton, Or, Us

*Drove a 9% sales increase YOY in the apparel department of an $10+ million retail store*Trained full-time employees in store merchandising standards, set by myself and product coach, and partnered with other management to oversee development within other store departments *Chosen to lead the execution of the remodel of our store which included building relationships and directly communicating with contractors, corporate leaders, and all other interested parties

Beaverton, Or, Us

*Created and implemented an all store digital training to correspond with the roll-out of new technology to store teams in the Utah market*I had a consumer service focus and helped to drive an increase in satisfaction scores by 3 points in two months

Seattle, Wa, Us

South Jordan, Utah, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance