Allison Hoeinghaus is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand in the Dallas office. She brings more than 15 years of experience in compensation and benefits matters for both public and private companies. Allison helps companies tackle how to effectively and efficiently pay and incentivize their employees. She works with companies to design and benchmark annual bonus and long-term incentive compensation programs, all while considering the applicable tax, accounting, and other regulatory ramifications. Allison focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including golden parachute rules and due diligence of compensation arrangements. She also works on executive compensation matters, such as stock options, restricted stock, the one million dollar deduction limitation, global compensation strategies, qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, and payroll compliance. Allison helps her clients stay up to speed on emerging compensation trends as well, such as employment-related pandemic relief, gender/racial pay equity, and the impact of environment, social, and governance (ESG) efforts on compensation programs. Allison received a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in professional accounting from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Allison is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP) through the WorldatWork organization.