Executive and Employee Compensation

Providing comprehensive guidance on the design and implementation of executive compensation and employee benefit plans, programs and agreements.

We help our clients attract and retain the best personnel at all levels of their organizations. Our attorneys offer proactive and pragmatic solutions to the wide range of executive compensation and employee compensation benefit challenges that can arise in business. Pulling on the tax, benefits, corporate, employment and securities skills needed, we provide a holistic approach to these challenges.

We can work with you to design an array of equity compensation plans and agreements, including:

Options
Restricted stock
Stock appreciation rights
Restricted stock units
Phantom stock
Compensatory grants of partnership interests

We also design Section 409A-compliant deferred compensation arrangements, and management carve-out and bonus plans.

Our employee compensation attorneys advise on various issues for M&A and other business transactions, including the treatment of optionsequity awards and Section 280G parachute payment issues.

Our clients also depend on us for advice regarding:

Employment and consulting agreements
Pension plans, including defined benefit and defined contribution plans
Supplemental executive retirement plans
Severance plans and agreements
Profit sharing plans
Savings plans
Employee stock purchase plans
Employee stock ownership plans
Qualified benefit plans
ERISA plan investments in various types of funds
Compensation-related disclosure obligations

Areas of Focus

Our team can advise you on matters involving:

Cash-based incentive compensation plans and agreements
Equity-based incentive compensation plans and agreements
Executive Compensation and employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisition and other business transactions.