Critical advice for high-profile and complex executive compensation matters
Proskauer’s Executive Compensation practice provides clients with responsive service, deep experience, and broad range. Because executive compensation matters often involve dynamic, sensitive, and high-profile concerns, our team draws on decades of experience to provide critical, pragmatic, and creative real-time advice. We help clients navigate complex legal requirements, address business objectives and challenges that affect executive compensation, and implement practical solutions.
We represent a wide array of clients: Fortune 500 companies and their boards and compensation committees; public and private company CEOs and C-suite executives; management teams in billion-dollar MBOs; private equity firms and their portfolio companies; hedge funds and asset managers; private companies; and tax-exempt entities. We guide clients on best practices and industry standards. Our group spans disciplines related to executive compensation, including tax, securities, contract, corporate governance, stock exchange, ERISA, and employment law.
We are recognized leaders in executive compensation law and consistently top-rated by organizations and publications including Chambers USA, Legal 500, and The Best Lawyers in America. Forbes also recognized Proskauer on its inaugural list of “America’s Top Corporate Law Firms” for both executive compensation and benefits.
Areas of Focus
- C-Suite and senior team executive compensation arrangements, including employment agreements, severance plans and agreements and change in control plans and agreements;
- Board and committee governance relating to compensation and executive succession;
- Equity-based compensation such as stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance awards, profits interests and other partnership interests, phantom arrangements and other vehicles;
- Bonus, deferred compensation, non-qualified retirement, retention and incentive plans and arrangements;
- Transactional-related compensation and benefit matters, including mergers & acquisitions, management buy-outs (MBOs), spin-offs, joint ventures, bankruptcies and restructurings, public offerings and other transformative transactions;
- Public company securities and disclosure matters;
- Private Equity, Hedge Fund and alternative asset compensation arrangements;
- Consulting, advisory and non-employee director arrangements; and
- Post-termination restrictive covenants, clawbacks and other post-termination arrangements.