Ms. Lin is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department. She advises clients on executive compensation, equity-based incentives, deferred compensation, severance plans, pension plans and other employee benefit arrangements, with particular emphasis on issues arising in merger and acquisition transactions, initial public offerings, and new and joint ventures. Ms. Lin also advises on employment and consulting arrangements, the applicability of securities and tax laws to executives and employers, and on general employment-related matters.

The matters she has worked on recently include acquisitions and dispositions by private equity funds, including DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Metalmark Capital Partners; the merger of MCI and Verizon Communications; the sale of Texas Instruments’ Sensors & Controls business; the acquisition by Shire Pharmaceuticals of Transkaryotic Therapies; the acquisition by Olympus Corporation of R/D Tech; the IPO of IHS Inc.; and the formation of the Sony Music Entertainment joint venture. Clients she has advised on compensation and benefit issues include Comcast, GSC Partners, Himax Technologies, Integrated Finance Limited, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Morgan Stanley, Partner Re and Suez.

In her pro bono practice, Ms. Lin has represented Women’s Prayer Summit in its formation as a not-for-profit corporation and its negotiation of a license agreement with Madison Square Garden; a battered woman in a divorce case; and individuals seeking asylum in the United States, such as a Chinese Christian evangelist, Tibetan refugees and a Cameroonian political activist. She also has advised students at Columbia Law School’s immigration clinic.

She joined Davis Polk in 1996 and became a partner in 2006.

Ms. Lin graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1993 and in 1996 received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was on the board of student advisers and taught legal research and writing to first-year students. She is admitted to the bar of New York. She is fluent in Japanese and conversant in French.

She has published “Examining Executive Compensation” in the New York Law Journal (May 1, 2000) with Barbara Nims.