Jennifer Conway

Jennifer S. Conway is a partner in Cravath’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Department. Her practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other business transactions. Ms. Conway also regularly counsels public and private companies on the design, implementation and disclosure of equity and cash incentive compensation and retention programs and the negotiation of executive employment and separation agreements.

Ms. Conway frequently represents IBM on M&A matters, including its acquisition of Truven Health Analytics from Veritas Capital, the divestiture of its global commercial semiconductor technology business to GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the sale of its personal computing business and the sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo, its acquisition of Bank of America’s mortgage servicing business and its acquisition of Sterling Commerce from AT&T. In addition, Ms. Conway regularly represents a variety of other clients in M&A matters and other business transactions, including Lazard Ltd, Time Warner and DreamWorks Animation.

Ms. Conway has been recognized as a leading lawyer in employee benefits and executive compensation by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2010 through 2017; The Legal 500 from 2010 through 2017; and The Best Lawyers in America from 2013 through 2018.

Ms. Conway is from Charlottesville, Virginia. She received a B.S.F.S. cum laude from Georgetown University in 1996 and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 2001, where she was a James Kent Scholar and Managing Editor of the Journal of Transnational Law. She joined Cravath in 2001 and became a partner in 2009.