Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits, and ERISA

The firm’s Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits, and ERISA lawyers are consistently recognized as leaders in this continually evolving and highly technical regulatory practice. We play a critical role in our clients’ most complex and high-profile transactions and serve as an integral part of the firm’s corporate practices, routinely advising on matters centered around private equity, M&A, restructuring, tax, capital markets, investment funds, and corporate governance.

We operate at the cutting edge of the most recent regulatory and market developments across the full range of related disciplines, anticipating and resolving issues before they arise while providing clients with practical solutions to achieve their most challenging business goals. We act as consummate counselors and advocates to clients ranging from companies and boards of directors to individual executives and management teams.

With a focus on tax-efficient compensation planning, we are exceptionally skilled at advising on, designing, negotiating, and drafting compensation plans and agreements to support companies in all stages of the corporate life cycle.

Well-equipped to handle any related issues regardless of complexity, much of our work focuses on the following types of matters:

• Equity compensation arrangements including stock options, profits interests, carried interests/promote, and phantom equity.
• Golden parachutes and Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Deferred compensation and Sections 409A and 457 of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Public company compensation disclosure.
• KEIPs and KERPs.
• Employment agreements and separation agreements.
• Change-in-control arrangements.
• ERISA Title I fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction rules.