{"id":596,"date":"2024-05-03T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wachtell-star-received-record-breaking-pay-in-first-year-as-salesforce-clo\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:47:30","slug":"wachtell-star-received-record-breaking-pay-in-first-year-as-salesforce-clo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wachtell-star-received-record-breaking-pay-in-first-year-as-salesforce-clo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wachtell Star Received Record-Breaking Pay in First Year as Salesforce CLO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Former Wachtell Lipton partner Sabastian Niles earned $14.1 million in compensation\u00a0in his first year as chief legal officer of Salesforce,\u00a0according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1108524\/000119312524129470\/d26900dpre14a.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary proxy statement<\/a>\u00a0filed late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>That figure would have placed Niles 13th on last summer\u2019s Corporate Counsel\u00a0list of highest-paid legal chiefs, ranked by 2022 comp. What makes it even more notable is that Niles\u00a0didn\u2019t join the CRM giant until July 31, 2023, halfway through its fiscal year, which ended Jan. 31, 2024. No first-year legal chief included in the CC pay survey in recent years has earned so much in such a short span.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wachtell Lipton partner Sabastian Niles earned $14.1 million in compensation\u00a0in his first year as chief legal officer of Salesforce,\u00a0according to a\u00a0preliminary proxy statement\u00a0filed late Thursday. That figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[843,510,840,841,842,839,838,656],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-clo","tag-pay","tag-received","tag-recordbreaking","tag-salesforce","tag-star","tag-wachtell","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}