Amanda K. Toy

Amanda K. Toy advises clients on executive compensation, employee benefits, governance, and transaction-related compensation issues. Her work supports public companies, private companies, investment funds, executives, and boards during important business changes. She handles matters tied to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, spin-offs, IPOs, financings, and investments. Clients rely on her guidance when compensation plans, leadership transitions, and employee benefit issues affect major corporate decisions and related negotiations across sectors and industries.

Amanda earned a J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, graduating cum laude. She also earned an A.B. from Princeton University. Her education supports her work on complex compensation structures, benefits questions, and corporate governance concerns. She applies legal analysis to plans and agreements involving equity incentives, cash incentives, retention, severance, employment, consulting, termination, and succession arrangements. Her work supports clients across many industries and complex matters involving employees directly.

Amanda represents clients in banking, financial services, consumer products, retail, technology, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, and private equity matters. Her experience includes compensation and benefits advice connected to large acquisitions, sales, public offerings, separations, and mergers. She also counsels clients on disclosure matters during transactions, shareholder activism, and senior leadership changes. Her work helps clients structure arrangements that match business goals, legal duties, governance needs, and risk concerns during change periods.

Amanda K. Toy has been recognized for employee benefits and executive compensation work. Her honors include recognition from Chambers USA and Legal 500 US in compensation and benefits-related categories. She also writes and speaks on executive compensation developments. Clients value her practical approach to sensitive workplace, leadership, and transaction issues. Her guidance helps boards, executives, funds, and companies address compensation questions with informed judgment and steady legal support in transactions.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
• Member, New York State Bar Association

Licensed State

• New York

Education

• Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Princeton University
  Bachelor of Arts (AB)

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