Thomas P Desmond

Practice Areas

Mr. Desmond’s practice includes advising corporations and financial institutions with respect to executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and governance matters. His corporate engagements have included acting as advisor to boards of directors and to compensation, audit, governance and other special committees of boards of directors of public and privately held corporations.

Mr. Desmond is known nationally for his representation of corporations, compensation committees and executives on a day-to-day and transactional basis with respect to employment, retirement and separation arrangements affecting senior executives, incentive compensation programs and related regulatory and disclosure requirements. His assignments in this area have included negotiating employment arrangements, compensation plans and regulatory and disclosure matters relating to numerous organizations, including Ace Hardware, Alexion, Baxalta, Beam, Calamos Investments, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Diversey, DIRECTV, First Midwest, Fiserv, Harris Associates, Hershey, Hill-Rom, Hyatt, LPGA, MB Financial, PepsiCo, PGA Tour, Protective Life, Stancorp Financial, Swiss Re, Visa and numerous private equity-sponsored entities and independent directors.

Mr. Desmond has also spoken and written on executive compensation and governance issues and has been quoted on these matters in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. He is also an instructor for the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management’s board education programs.

Professional Memberships

Member, The Economic Club of Chicago