{"id":55356,"date":"2018-12-06T16:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=55356"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:50:19","slug":"amy-sheridan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/amy-sheridan\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Sheridan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy Sheridan is a Lecturer in Law in the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law, where she has taught Executive Compensation since 2019. She is also a partner at Sullivan &amp; Worcester LLP and a member of the firm\u2019s Management Committee. Amy concentrates her practice in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation, with particular expertise in the design, structuring and compliance of complex compensation and benefit arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her work includes advising on qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation, welfare plans (including Affordable Care Act and HIPAA compliance) and equity-based compensation. She is widely recognized for her deep knowledge of Internal Revenue Code Sections 409A, 457(f), and 457A, and is known for her innovative approach to structuring deferred compensation, bonus and phantom equity arrangements. Amy is also a thought leader on the legal implications of post-<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dobbs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> developments on employee benefit plan design and administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She advises clients across a wide range of industries\u2014including fintech and blockchain, life sciences, healthcare, real estate, education, esports and gaming, hospitality and nonprofit organizations\u2014working with businesses from early-stage startups to large public companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy was named to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2024 \u201cTop Women of Law\u201d and was selected by the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Law Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a 2022 Employment Law Trailblazer. She has also been recognized by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chambers USA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Best Lawyers in America\u00ae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Legal 500 U.S.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for her work in executive compensation and employee benefits law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy earned her LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law, her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and her B.A. from Wellesley College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15035,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/55356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/55356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118681,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/55356\/revisions\/118681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}