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Dionne A. Thomas

Associate

dthomas@cooley.com

Dionne Thomas focuses her practice in the areas of executive compensation, equity compensation and employee benefits. She advises public and private companies, executive management teams and individual executives on a broad range of compensation and benefits topics in the context of mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, as well as ongoing business operations. Her practice covers executive agreements, cash and equity-based incentive programs, change-in-control and severance plans, 409A and other deferred compensation issues and 280G “golden parachute” compliance.

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Experience

  • Redx Pharma to Merge With Jounce Therapeutics 

  • Structure Therapeutics – $185.3 Million IPO 

  • Arena Pharmaceuticals Agrees to Sell to Pfizer for $6.7 Billion 

  • Intersect ENT Agrees to Sell to Medtronic for More Than $1 Billion 

  • Forbius Agrees to Sell to Bristol Myers Squibb 

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Passions

    Traveling

    Photography

Education

  • New York University School of Law
    LLM, Taxation
    2016

  • University of San Diego School of Law
    JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2015

  • University of Virginia
    BS, Biology
    2005


Admissions & Credentials

California