Myrna Salinas Baumann

Myrna Salinas Baumann provides employment counseling to companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. She also advises employers regarding day-to-day employment compliance, best practices, and litigation avoidance. In her employment counseling related to corporate transactions, Ms. Salinas Baumann regularly works with attorneys in the firm’s corporate, finance and investments and employee benefits practices to negotiate purchase agreements, conduct due diligence, assess litigation exposure risks, and analyze ancillary employment documents, including executive employment, separation and release, retention bonus, and restrictive covenant agreements. Her advice and compliance practice addresses a variety of employment matters, such as employment and non-competition agreements, employee classification, performance and discipline, and terminations. Throughout her practice, Ms. Salinas Baumann draws on her prior experience as a litigator representing employers in disputes involving Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, and Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as investigations by government agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Labor. In addition to her employment practice, she has earned multiple King & Spalding Pro Bono Service Awards in recognition of her commitment to pro bono matters. Ms. Salinas Baumann also contributes to the firm’s diversity initiatives: she previously served as the co-chair of the Latinx Affinity Group, as a planning committee member and chair of the firm’s biennial Diversity Retreats, and as a member of the firm’s Diversity Committee. In the Austin community she served as a board member of Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas and the Hispanic Bar Association of Austin Charitable Foundation. Ms. Salinas Baumann was also a long-time volunteer for admission and fundraising for her undergraduate alma mater, Rice University.