Wendi S. Lazar

For more than 30 years, Wendi Lazar has practiced employment law internationally with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, employment agreements, and cross-border issues.

In 2024, Wendi founded a new venture, Wendi Lazar Law PC, to counsel clients seeking boutique, highly complex legal services involving M&A transactions and other executive compensation matters. Previously, Wendi was an equity partner at Outten & Golden, where she led and co-managed the firm’s individual and international executive practices.

In addition to her law practice, Wendi is the founder of C-Suite Strategies. This strategic advisory consultancy leverages her years of experience to advise international executives, law partners, founders, and businesses on compensation, structure, complex transactions, and risk management. C-Suite Strategies is not a law firm, and she works with clients in a non-legal capacity.

Committed to giving back to the legal profession, Wendi has chaired the International Committees of both the American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section and the New York State Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section, and she remains active in executive leadership roles. She is an active speaker and panelist for many national and international organizations, including the ABA, NYSBA, Practising Law Institute, International Forum of Senior Executive Advisers, European Employment Lawyers Association, and other non-legal groups.

Wendi served for three years on the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Law. In 2020, she received the prestigious Margaret Brent Award for Excellence in the Profession. This prestigious award is given to lawyers for their extraordinary and innovative work in the profession and for mentoring and supporting women, a mission to which she has been devoted throughout her legal career.

Wendi launched the New York Law Journal’s “Employees in the Workplace” column, and she continues to write a column for Reuters on executive compensation and employment law. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Zero Tolerance: Best Practices for Combating Sex-Based Harassment in the Legal Profession, an ABA guide to combating harassment. Wendi is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of BNA’s Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets in Employment Law: An International Survey, and authored the “Confidentiality, Trade Secrets, and Other Duties and Restrictive Covenants in a Global Economy” chapter. She also authored “Negotiating and Drafting Expatriate Employment Agreements,” a chapter in BNA’s 3rd Edition of Vol. 1B of International Labor & Employment Law, and co-wrote “Employee Competition in the U.S”, a chapter in the book Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality and Garden Leave (3d ed.) edited by Paul Goulding.