Florentino Salazar is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group.  His practice focuses on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits.  Mr. Salazar’s practice encompasses tax, ERISA, accounting, corporate, and securities law aspects of equity and other incentive compensation plans and executive employment and severance arrangements.  Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Salazar was a corporate associate in the Executive Compensation Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

Mr. Salazar received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 2013 where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as Executive Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.  He earned a Master of Arts in Special Education from Loyola Marymount University in 2010 and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 2008.  Prior to entering law school, Mr. Salazar served as an eighth grade resource teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District as a Teach for America corps member.

Mr. Salazar is admitted to practice in the State of New York and California.