Tristan D. Johnston

Attorney

212.912.2728

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Overview

Tristan is a member of the labor and employment team and represents executives and corporate clients. He has experience negotiating employment and compensation agreements, confidentiality arrangements, and complex equity incentive structures. Tristan brings a strong transactional foundation to his employment practice, having spent several years advising clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial, and international matters before joining Troutman.

Overview

Tristan is a member of the labor and employment team and represents executives and corporate clients. He has experience negotiating employment and compensation agreements, confidentiality arrangements, and complex equity incentive structures. Tristan brings a strong transactional foundation to his employment practice, having spent several years advising clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial, and international matters before joining Troutman.

Top areas of focus

  • Secretary, The Frederick Cotillion Club (2025-present)
  • Member, New Lawyers Reference Group, Law Society of Scotland (2012-2024)
  • Director, The Sportsman’s Charity Limited (2020-2022)
  • CSR and Charities Team member, Eversheds Sutherland International LLP (2017)
  • Events coordinator, Mary’s Meals Glasgow University (2013-2016)
  • Member, The Corporate Law Advisory Support Programme (2016)
  • Special projects officer, University of Utah, 2024-present

Education

  • University of Glasgow, Diploma in Professional Legal Practice: Merit, 2017
  • University of Glasgow, L.L.B., with honors, 2016
  • Daniel Stewart’s Melville College, 2012

Bar Admissions

  • Scotland, UK
  • New York