Ms. Nims is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department. She advises clients on executive compensation, stock-based incentive, deferred compensation and pension plans and other employee benefit arrangements, with particular emphasis on issues arising in the contexts of merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization and bankruptcy and workout transactions. She also advises on pension investment and fiduciary considerations, employment and consulting arrangements, the applicability of federal securities and tax laws to executives and employees, and on general employment-related matters.

Transactions on which Ms. Nims has advised include the mergers of Chevron and Texaco, J.P. Morgan and Chase, Exxon and Mobil, and The St. Paul and Travelers, as well as the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting by IBM and the acquisition of Kinko’s by FedEx. Ms. Nims also advised J.P. Morgan in connection with the implementation of the Microsoft transferable option program.

Ms. Nims joined Davis Polk in 1983 and became a partner in 1992.

She graduated, magna cum laude, from Duke University in 1971 and served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1971 to 1976. She received her J.D., Order of the Coif, in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was managing editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law.

Ms. Nims has published several articles on compensation issues, including “New Issues in Structuring Executive Compensation Under the Revised Section 16 Rules,” ERISA and Benefits Law Journal (1992) (with James P. Lawton); “SEC Adopts New Rules on Executive Compensation,” Securities & Commodities Regulation (1993) (with Carol Silverman); “Transferable Employee Stock Options—Selected Tax and Securities Law Issues,” ERISA and Benefits Law Journal (1994) (with Robert W. Weaver); “Examining Executive Compensation,” New York Law Journal (May 1, 2000) (with Kyoko Takahashi) and “The Re-Proposed 280G Regulations,” Practising Law Institute Tax Law and Practice Course Handbook Series Number J-537 (2002).

She is a former co-chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section.