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Kristin O'Hanlon

Special Counsel

kohanlon@cooley.com

Kristin focuses her practice on compensation and benefits matters. Her clients include founders, individual executives, emerging companies and multinational public companies. She regularly advises on compensation issues involved in mergers and acquisitions, including equity treatment, golden parachute matters and the interaction between existing and proposed compensation arrangements. She has significant experience designing equity and cash based incentive plans, employment agreements, separation agreements, retention and change in control agreements, and other compensation arrangements tailored to meet client needs.

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Experience

  • 2C2P and Ant Group Partner to Accelerate Digital Payment Adoption 

  • Route Hits $1.25 Billion Valuation With Series B Round 

  • Virtual Reality Developer Within Agrees to Sell to Meta 

  • Mobile Premier League Becomes Indias Second Gaming Unicorn With Series E Round 

  • Genome Medical Closes $60 Million Series C Financing and Acquires GeneMatters 

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Education

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law
    JD, Boalt Hall Moot Advocacy Award, American Jurisprudence Award in Small Business Counseling, Prosser Prize in Advising Emerging Growth Companies, 2005

  • University of California, Los Angeles
    BA, Psychology, with a Specialization in Developmental Disabilities
    Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, Departmental Highest Honors, 1997


Admissions & Credentials

California

Washington