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Provided by Matthew E Johnson

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MATTHEW E. JOHNSON is a partner in Sidley’s Chicago office, and is co-leader of the firm’s global Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice area. Matthew represents and advises clients in all types of employee benefits and executive compensation matters, with a focus on helping clients recruit, retain and incentivize key talent, including the design and administration of equity-based and other incentive compensation plans, such as stock option, restricted stock, restricted stock unit, phantom stock and employee stock purchase plans, and the treatment of these plans in corporate acquisitions and dispositions; the negotiation of executive employment, retention, and separation agreements; the design and administration of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans and welfare benefit plans; designing and administering supplemental pension, deferred compensation and other benefit plans for executives; the employee benefit and executive compensation aspects of corporate transactions (mergers, stock and asset purchase transactions, spin-offs); the employee benefit and executive compensation aspects of bankruptcy and other restructuring transactions; and tax and other regulatory issues relating to employee benefits and executive compensation (e.g., IRC Sections 280G, 162(m) and 409A).

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