David Strosnider

Practice Areas

Executive compensation and governance | Tax and benefits | Securities | Labor and employment | Capital markets | Mergers and acquisitions | Startup and venture capital | Environmental, social and governance (ESG) | Employee benefits and ERISA

Career

David is a member of the Executive Compensation and Governance Practice Group. He advises clients in a wide range of industries on executive compensation, employee benefits, and employment law issues that arise in public and private M&A and private equity transactions.

David has an active practice representing compensation committees, companies, and senior executives in the negotiation and structuring of executive employment and severance agreements, and equity arrangements. He frequently represents management teams in M&A transactions and private equity deals.

David also provides advice to public and private companies, compensation committees, and senior executives with respect to day-to-day executive compensation, employee benefits, and employment law matters, including corporate governance, good and problematic pay practices, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, cash incentives, severance and change in control agreements, and equity compensation arrangements (including those that arise in partnerships and pass-thru entities).

Utilizing his LL.M. in taxation from The Georgetown University Law Center, David often advises clients on tax matters arising under Sections 83, 162(m), 280G, 409A, 4958 (the excess benefit transaction rules) and 4960 (the excess parachute payment rules the govern executives at tax-exempt organizations) of the Internal Revenue Code. He also advises public clients on securities disclosures associated with Item 402, as well as Dodd-Frank compliance.

David was previously a partner in the employee benefits and executive compensation groups of national law firms. Throughout his career, David has spoken at national employee benefits conferences and been published by leading publications on a wide range of executive compensation and employee benefits topics.