Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Our employment and benefits practitioners bring decades of experience in helping our clients manage human resources most productively, with an emphasis on "preventive maintenance" and litigation avoidance, design and support benefit arrangements that serve the broad needs of their employee base, and address the unique needs of their executive suite and boards.

Our team is experienced in helping our clients negotiate the deal and getting the parties to the finish line. We regularly advise clients in designing creative compensatory arrangements that attract and retain key personnel. Our Benefits attorneys, tax lawyers by training, bring an expertise to the table that includes a deep understanding of Internal Revenue Code Sections 409A, 457A, and 280G and often help the parties design and/or flesh out details of tax-efficient compensation arrangements. Together with our employment law specialists, we provide a full range of services to individuals and businesses (including Boards and Compensation Committees) in one-off negotiations, M&A transactions, and in planning for M&A transactions.

Our team assists clients in all aspects of design, administration, and termination of qualified retirement plans, welfare fringe benefit plans, equity compensation arrangements and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. As reflected below, our experience includes the critically important “typical” arrangements and extends to creative solutions customized to fit a client’s situation.