Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits

Finding and keeping high-caliber talent is essential for companies to compete in a constantly evolving economy. Executive compensation and employee benefits are complicated, expensive and potentially controversial.

Our lawyers focus on Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), employing a multi-disciplinary approach to effectively and efficiently helping clients faced with tax, ERISA and other issues stemming from executive compensation and employee benefits matters.

Drawing on the resources of a full-service global law firm, we:

Advise investment funds, corporations, financial institutions, individual executives, and individual and corporate trustees of employee benefit plans on:
- Executive compensation agreements
- Fiduciary responsibility and plan investments
- Non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements
- Incentive programs
- Golden parachutes
- Mergers and other corporate transactions
- Qualified retirement plans
- Welfare benefit plans.
Advise clients on the latest legal and legislative developments impacting pay structures and the tax implications of changes to retirement plan loans and withdrawals, most recently those due to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
Assist with strategies for managing actions for additional pay transparency and heightened scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), proxy advisory firms and activist shareholders.
Advise clients regarding the application of ERISA’s prohibited transaction and fiduciary responsibility rules.