Ashley Wagner provides seasoned counsel to public and private companies on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters.

Ashley advises employers and executives with respect to establishing:

  • Equity incentive plans
  • Employee stock purchase plans
  • Phantom equity, carveout, and other retention plans
  • Deferred compensation, bonus, and other incentive compensation plans
  • Severance and change in control arrangements
  • Employment agreements

She regularly advises on the employee benefits and compensation aspects in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, spinoffs, and initial public offerings.

Ashley also maintains an active pro bono practice. Her work includes helping people obtain permanent restraining orders against domestic abusers and advising non-profits on employment and benefits matters, employee handbooks, worker classification, and executive compensation.

She is Co-Chair of the firm’s Silicon Valley WEB Committee and formerly served on the Recruiting Committee.

Ashley represents market-leading companies on the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of their most important transactions and provides them with ongoing advice and counsel. Her representative clients include:

Technology

  • Alkami Technologies
  • Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
  • Blend Labs
  • Calix
  • Canva
  • Corsair Gaming
  • CradlePoint
  • Datafleets
  • Discord
  • Drizly
  • DXC Technology Company
  • Eventbrite
  • Hippo
  • Kajabi
  • Okta
  • Ouster
  • New Relic
  • Postmates
  • Slack Technologies

Healthcare & Life Sciences

  • 4D Molecular Therapeutics
  • 10X Genomics
  • Achaogen
  • Aligos Therapeutics
  • Arcutis Biotherapeutics
  • Aduro Biotech
  • Angion Biomedica
  • Ardelyx
  • Biomea Fusion
  • Coherus BioSciences
  • Eargo
  • Prothena Corporation
  • Nevro Corp
  • Restoration Robotics
  • Sana Biotechnology
  • Satsuma Pharmaceuticals
  • Treace Medical Concepts

Aviation

  • American Airlines
  • Frontier Group Holdings
  • Joby Aviation
  • Spirit Airlines
  • Virgin America

Private Equity

  • Astorg Partners
  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • The Carlyle Group
  • Meritech Capital Partners
  • Owl Rock Capital
  • Spectrum Equity

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, Duke University School of Law, 2010
  • BA, University of California, Berkeley, 2007