Willkie Adds Dallas Executive Compensation Partner

Jason Loden, an executive compensation and employee benefits partner, has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Dallas from Baker Botts. He will focus his practice on advising companies, private equity funds and nonprofit entities on executive compensation, employee benefits and tax matters, according to a news release.

Before joining Willkie, Loden was a partner at Baker Botts, where he served as firmwide chair of the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Section. In that role, he advised clients on sophisticated compensation structures and benefits matters, including in the context of mergers and acquisitions and provided guidance on regulatory compliance under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. Prior to that, he was at Thompson & Knight for 14 years before joining Baker Botts in June 2021.