Services | BakerHostetler

“They’re savvy with business issues and understand what we need commercially, keeping us abreast of new developments and their implications.”

Designing an effective executive compensation plan is a critical business decision, a key to attracting the best talent and driving performance. We take a practical but comprehensive approach, working proactively to ensure that compensation and benefit arrangements work in tandem with associated securities laws, investor relations, tax, ERISA and accounting implications.

Advised public companies with regard to the transition of C-level executives in voluntary and involuntary termination settings.
Assisted multiple publicly traded companies with the establishment of new omnibus equity compensation plans, including proxy disclosures, award agreements and plan documents.
Advised several publicly traded energy companies with regard to executive performance compensation and IRC Section 162(m) compliance and transitional relief.
Advised a senior level executive with the simultaneous negotiation of a new chief financial officer’s position with a new public company and his separation from his former company.
Advised public and private companies on key employee transition issues, including placements with foreign subsidiaries.
Advised an Internet company that needed to rebuff attempts by a former executive to exercise his stock options and needed to offset built-up deferred compensation owed to a departing executive against amounts owed to the company by the executive.
Advised tax-exempt organizations on director-level retention and transition programs, including the establishment of deferred compensation and retention plans.
Advised a professional services company that needed to reinforce its collaborative culture through the use of project-based profit-sharing pools controlled by those who participated in the project.
Advised an investment management company that needed to retain talented investment managers through the use of investment fund-based deferred compensation pools generated by carried interests held by the management company.