Natascha S. George

Natascha George, a partner in Goodwin's ERISA & Executive Compensation group, focuses her practice on executive compensation and employee benefits law. With more than 29 years’ experience in the industry, she advises clients regarding executive employment and consulting arrangements, severance obligations, and equity and equity-based compensation plans, both in the ordinary course and in the context of mergers, acquisitions and other business restructurings, initial public offerings and bankruptcy proceedings. She works with clients ranging from multinational public companies to closely held businesses in the design, implementation, maintenance and termination of executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements.

Natascha is a member of the Boston, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations. She has served as Tax Section co-chair and ERISA Subcommittee co-chair for the Tax Section of the Boston Bar Association.

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2014, Natascha was a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Boston. Previously, she was with Fidelity Investments Tax-Exempt Services Company and Watson Wyatt Worldwide.

Natascha served as a lecturer in law at Boston University School of Law’s Tax LL.M. program between 2010 and 2015.

Since 2022, Natascha has delivered a guest lecture each semester regarding equity compensation in early stage companies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Natascha was selected as "Lawyer of the Year" for her work in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law in Boston in both the 2022 and 2024 editions of Best Lawyers in America.

Natascha’s work in the executive compensation field has been consistently recognized by several leading attorney guides:

• Chambers USA, Band 1, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (2022-2024)
• Chambers USA, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (2007-2021)
• Recommended Lawyer, The Legal 500 United States, Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional (2019-2024)
• Best Lawyers, Employee Benefits Law (2008-2015, 2018-2023)
• Super Lawyers, Massachusetts (2013)

Chambers USA notes that she “provides comprehensive advice to financial institutions regarding employee benefits and executive compensation. Her expertise covers the design, implementation and termination of a host of plans.”

In law school, Natascha served as case and note editor for the American Journal of Law and Medicine.