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Equity Compensation: Navigating 409A Valuations

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Private company clients frequently ask us about granting compensatory stock options to their founders, employees and other service providers, including board members, consultants and advisors. Options and other equity awards...more

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Unlocking the Power of Equity-Based Incentive Compensation: Basics of Nonqualified Stock Options and Stock-Settled Stock...

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This article is the second in our series on equity-based compensation intended to assist employers with answering a common question: What type of equity compensation award is best for our company and our employees?...more

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Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz und ESOPs – Wirklich der große Wurf?

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Wichtiger Hinweis: Die folgenden (rechtlichen) Ausführungen dienen nur der allgemeinen Information, sind nicht abschließend und stellen keine rechtliche, steuerrechtliche oder sonstige Beratung dar. ...more

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What are “Double-Vest” RSUs and Why Are They Making Headlines?

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Double-vest restricted stock unit awards (Double-Vest RSUs) made headlines a few years after the end of the Great Recession when they were awarded by pre-IPO tech giants. Since that time, it has become increasingly common for...more

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Annual Reporting Requirements for Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plans

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For (1) any exercise of an incentive stock option (ISO) during 2022 or (2) transfer during 2022 of a share previously purchased pursuant to a tax-qualified employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), the Internal Revenue Code...more

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Employee Stock Plans: International Reporting Requirements (UPDATED)

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This White Paper highlights some of the principal annual or quarterly reporting requirements for employee stock plans that multinational companies most commonly encounter when offering these programs to their employees in...more

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2022 Year-End – A Few Executive Compensation Income Tax Reminders

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With the holidays in full swing and less than one week remaining in 2022, we wanted to pass along a few compensation income tax related stocking stuffer reminders in connection with the year-end for which companies and/or...more

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Founder Series: Top Tips to Follow to Incentivise Your Team

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Orrick's Founder Series offers monthly top tips for UK startups on key considerations at each stage of their lifecycle, from incorporating a company through to possible exit strategies. The Series is written by members of our...more

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UPDATE: Russian Central Bank Clarification Provides Limited Exception to Decree No. 81

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On March 18, 2022, the Russian Central Bank clarified that the restrictions imposed under Decree No. 81 (see our earlier alert below) do not apply if a Russian resident acquires shares from a company of an “unfriendly”...more

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Practical Approaches to Employee Equity in Russia under Presidential Decrees

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The Russian President has issued Decree No. 81 — “due to the unfriendly actions of the US and other countries in violation of international law” — establishing special procedures for any transactions leading to the transfer...more

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Reminder: No Need to Adopt Retirement Plans, ESOPs included, by End of 2021 for Tax Deduction Purposes

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Before 2020, the IRS had long taken the position that an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), and any other retirement plan for that matter, must be adopted no later than the end of the first tax year in which the employer...more

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Ohio High Court Upholds Taxation of a Nonresident’s Income from Stock Options

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The Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the City of Cleveland’s taxation of a nonresident’s income from stock options even though the income was recognized by the nonresident seven years after the nonresident had ceased working or...more

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Replacing Pay with Equity to Preserve Cash in a COVID Economy

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As pandemic effects linger, companies intent on avoiding layoffs are looking at compensating workers with equity in lieu of cash as part of their pay. In August 2020, the United Kingdom began winding down its Coronavirus...more

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Nowotny on Death and Taxes Episode 6 Surfs Up Dude! High Tech Tax Solutions for High Tech Workers

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Episode 6 is about tax planning solutions for the exercise of incentive stock options. ...more

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Annual Reporting Requirements for Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plans (UPDATED)

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Requirement to Report - For (1) any exercise of an incentive stock option (ISO) during 2019 or (2) transfer during 2019 of a share previously purchased pursuant to a tax-qualified employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), the...more

Jones Day

International Employee Stock Plans: 2019 Mid-Year Developments

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This White Paper highlights some recent developments in certain countries relating to employee stock plans offered by multinational companies to employees in such jurisdictions. BELGIUM - New Tax Withholding...more

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Precedential Court Ruling on Options Plans for Employees

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Several days ago, a precedential judgment was handed down (AA 55937-01-17, Shohat v. The State of Israel) on option plans for employees in respect of section 102 of the Income Tax Ordinance. Although the judgment considers...more

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Proposed Changes to Stock Option Tax Rules

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On June 17, 2019, Canada’s finance minister tabled a Notice of Ways and Means Motion regarding the taxation of employee stock options. This follows from the government’s announcement in the 2019 Budget that it intended to...more

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Not So Fast…the (Unexpected) Consequences of Allowing Your Employees to Early Exercise Options

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From time to time, and primarily when the economy is booming, allowing stock options to be “early exercised” - that is, allowing options to be exercised before they are vested - becomes in vogue. We are in one of those times....more

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Canadian Federal Budget Proposes To Cap Employee Stock Option Benefit

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New legislation proposed in the 2019 Federal Budget would limit the extent to which employees will be entitled to favourable Canadian income tax treatment on certain stock options....more

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IRS Issues Guidance on the Deferral of Income from Private Corporation Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units

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On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") was signed into law. The Act added a new Section 83(i) to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), pursuant to which certain employees of eligible...more

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IRS Issues New Guidance on Section 83(i)

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The Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2018-97 on December 7, providing initial guidance for the new Section 83(i) of the Internal Revenue Code (Section 83(i)) enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The notice principally...more

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To Be or Not To Be … Subject to the New Section 83(i) Deferral Process - IRS Issues New Guidance

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The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance on a tax law change that permits the deferral of income tax on equity awards in private companies. Section 83(i) of the Internal Revenue Code was included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and...more

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Equity Compensation and the Rise of Restricted Stock Units

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In recent years, equity compensation programs have increasingly been using restricted stock units (RSUs). A manufacturing company recently made news when it granted RSUs worth millions of dollars to thousands of its employees...more

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Enterprise Management Incentive option plans following expiry of EU State Aid approval – playing the waiting game

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Enterprise Management Incentive ("EMI") option plans are one of the very few UK tax advantaged option plan arrangements. Companies qualify to grant EMI options if they meet qualifying criteria, including...more

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