Ameena is a highly trained and skilled executive compensation and employee benefit lawyer who, through her personal endeavors and business acumen, has transformed her practice to providing clients with cutting edge strategic consulting, advice, and counsel through an impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens. She partners with her clients to navigate and drive business goals centered around the quickly evolving and complex ESG landscape in today’s fractured business setting.

Ameena takes a practical approach to helping clients with their impact initiatives by meeting them where they are in their journey. She helps identify and educate a client’s impact footprint; organize and grow programs; and provides practical implementation to navigate policies and reporting, all while never losing sight of the expectations of varied stakeholders or the details of the issues at hand. She’s a high level thinker that doesn’t lose sight of the future forward.

For more than 20 years, Ameena has helped clients navigate corporate and fiduciary governance and technical complexities of executive compensation and employee benefits for Fortune 20 to 500 companies, across a variety of industries. She understands that compensation and benefits form the core of a talent retention strategy. She helps her clients provide incentives that align with their company values, and foster a culture that helps them attract, and more importantly, retain their employees. As ESG continues to be a topic for boards of directors, the link to executive compensation is being discussed and scrutinized. Ameena assists companies with designing competitive executive compensation and employee benefit offerings that are compliant, competitive, and communicated in ways that protect the company, and make employees feel invested in the company's success. When an employment relationship ends, and severance is offered, Ameena strategizes with her clients to design a severance package tailored to the client’s particular interests at issue in the termination.

Further, as an advisory board member to, and impact investor in, Able Made PBC, a Delaware B corporation and sustainably forward fashion brand, Ameena brings a business, growth and pragmatic mindset to her legal practice as companies respond to heightened expectations for integrating both environmental and human rights decisions into cultivating ethical supply chains.

This experience, her public company practice and proxy work, combined with her prior anti-modern slavery advocacy work with Stop the Traffik USA, gives Ameena a unique background and heightened sensitivity to advice on impact and ESG disclosures, associated legal risks, governance considerations, due diligence approaches to support disclosures and the link to executive compensation.

Ameena is also the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Impact and ESG practice group. In this role, she leads a dynamic trans-disciplinary group that is at the forefront of providing integrated advice and counsel on implementing practical ESG and related multi-stakeholder principles into a long-term business strategy that builds resiliency.

Ameena's approach to her practice was formed in her childhood. As the youngest of immigrant parents, she was raised between two cultures that did not always externally align. This background has made her an observer, and she takes in information before stepping into any situation to meet people where they are. Ameena is also the sister to a disabled brother. These roles have given her a deep sense of empathy and an ability to see the nuances of any situation or person. Ameena's empathetic nature combined with decades of experience in the counseling practice enables her to quickly sift through the substance, process, and emotion of a given matter or situation. As a counselor, Ameena adheres to the basic tenets of respect, seeking to understand the larger business context and goals, and listening first to guide her clients.

Clients call on Gina when they have high-stakes fraud and contract disputes, and to advise on their Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance ("ESG") Initiatives. Gina focuses on commercial and business counseling and litigation for all industries, with an emphasis on the financial services, government contractor, and retail/hospitality industries. She defends companies against contract disputes, fraud and misrepresentation claims, securities fraud and director and officer liability claims, common law and statutory business tort claims, and California statutory consumer fraud claims. Gina also has experience defending and prosecuting misappropriation of trade secret claims, construction claims, and real estate disputes. She has litigated employment matters including wage and hour class actions, discrimination and harassment claims, and California Labor Code violation claims.

Gina litigates bet-the-company cases nationwide. She is uniquely qualified to bring her institutional knowledge of client culture and goals to high-stakes matters wherever her clients face those disputes. Based on her extensive trial experience, she effectively analyzes business and financial risk. Those skills aren't only applied in litigation. Her experience helps clients develop annual business goals and forecast overall litigation risk.

For many firm clients, Gina is the go-to trial counsel. She is on several elite panels to handle complex matters. Gina is also on several firm client teams focused on helping clients meet and set business goals. She is the co-Chair of the firm’s Impact & ESG practice group that helps companies provide an improved ESG structure that impacts all their stakeholders, long-term.

Gina is incredibly practical in all of her cases. She does what needs to be done to win—nothing more and nothing less. Gina is also solutions-oriented. Her goal is to get the client to yes, not to be overwrought about risk. She crafts creative and alternative solutions that may not be apparent at first blush. Since she's frequently working with witnesses and jurors on a variety of complex matters in highly-regulated industries, she learns different and new business models, technical matters, and how to communicate with different personalities with ease.