Wendi Lazar

Wendi Lazar is a Negotiations Strategy Expert with Crenshaw Associates. She is an expert in complex executive compensation challenges faced by executives and management teams for public companies and private equity firms.

Wendi is a senior leader with broad board-level fiduciary experience encompassing governance, risk, audit, strategic planning, executive compensation, and succession planning. Her current practice focuses on advising management teams, organizations, and businesses on strategic decisions, transactions, and human capital initiatives.

Wendi is a former partner at Outten & Golden LLP where she co-led the firm’s Executives & Professionals Practice Group. She practiced in many areas of employment law with a focus on executive agreements, including retention, expatriate, non-competition, talent, severance, and compensation arrangements. She also represented teams of executives transitioning during mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Ms. Lazar co-chaired the firm’s Executives and Professionals Practice Group.

Wendi has been recognized by Martindale-Hubbell, Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers and is a Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyer. Wendi graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College and received her J.D. cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship in International Law and an Alexander Fellow, participating as a federal judicial law clerk.