Elizabeth Pagel Serebransky is a retired partner. Her practice focused on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits and corporate governance matters, including advising boards and their compensation committees with respect to compensation and disclosure matters, addressing tax and benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions and on the design, negotiation and implementation of employee agreements, equity-based incentive and other compensation programs for public and private companies, financial sponsors, management groups and individual executives. Ms. Pagel Serebransky also advised clients on compensation-related corporate and securities law matters, including analyzing and complying with applicable SEC registration, reporting and disclosure requirements.
Ms. Pagel Serebransky was ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA (2020), where she was noted for her “incredible amount of experience,” and described as a “stalwart” of the industry. One impressed client noted, “she was terrific at answering our questions, but also in raising issues that we were unfamiliar with.” She was also recommended by The Legal 500 US (2019) in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, where clients noted that she “is particularly good” and “responsive and vastly experienced.”
In addition to her legal work, Ms. Pagel Serebransky also serves on several not-for-profit boards. She is currently Chair of The New Jewish Home, a comprehensive, mission-driven nonprofit senior health care system serving seniors in New York City since 1848. She also serves on the board of the National Association of Women Lawyers, which has been providing leadership, a collective voice, and essential resources to advance women in the legal profession and advocate for the equality of women under the law since 1899.
Ms. Pagel Serebransky joined Debevoise in 1987 and became a partner in 1995. She received her B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1980 and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1984, where she was an editor of the Hastings Law Journal.