Partner
Richard K. Zepfel is a partner at Payne & Fears in Irvine whose practice focuses on business transactions and employment law counseling. He handles corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals, and major commercial contracts. He also handles real estate matters, including the acquisition and leasing of commercial and industrial property. On the employment side, he prepares and negotiates executive employment agreements, executive compensation and equity incentive plans, separation and severance agreements, and employee handbooks. Clients, many of them entering complex transactions for the first time, rely on him to understand their objectives and design efficient strategies to reach them. Before joining Payne & Fears, he was managing partner of the Orange County office of Graham & James LLP and earlier an associate at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. He earned his J.D. from the USC Law Center and his B.A. in Political Science from UCLA.
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