Honigman Welcomes Marissa Sims as Partner in its Chicago Corporate Department

CHICAGO - Honigman LLP announced today that Marissa Sims has joined the firm as a partner in its Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group of the Corporate Department. She joins Honigman following ten years with Winston & Strawn.

“We are delighted to welcome Marissa to our department. The depth of her knowledge and experience across executive compensation and employee benefit matters will be a valuable asset to our group,” said Kimberly A. Dudek, chair of Honigman’s Corporate Department and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. “Marissa brings a level of sophistication that will complement our practice as we continue to strengthen our national presence and pursue strategic growth priorities.”

Sims advises both public and private sector clients on a broad array of employee benefit and executive compensation matters. She serves as executive compensation counsel to late-stage private, newly public and mature public companies, playing an active role in advising their boards of directors, compensation committees, and senior executives. Sims regularly partners with clients and their advisors in designing, negotiating, implementing, and maintaining compensation plans and arrangements.

Sims earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Washington University School of Law, her M.Ed. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and her B.A., also summa cum laude, from Miami University.

About Honigman

Honigman LLP is an Am Law 200 full-service, general business law firm with more than 350 attorneys counseling clients on complex issues across the country in Chicago, Michigan (Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing), Washington, D.C. and Israel (operated through Honigman Law Israel). Honigman lawyers counsel clients on complex issues in more than 60 areas of law. For more information, visit www.honigman.com.

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