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Capital Gains Incentive Stock Options

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I Seen a Girl on a One-Way Corridor, Stealing Down a Wrong-Way Street – Tax Opportunities with ISOs in M&A

by John Ludlum Incentive Stock Options (“ISOs”) have a somewhat legendary status as equity incentives for technology and other early-stage companies. It is true that ISOs are one of two types of equity awards that can achieve...more

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How to Motivate Your Team with Equity Compensation: What Startup Companies Need to Know

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Cash-strapped startup companies often find themselves looking for creative ways to engage and retain qualified people. One common way is to offer different types of equity compensation. ...more

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Tax Treatment of Carried Interests Not Likely to Change This Year

Just over a week ago, in Changes to Tax on Carried Interest Would Lead to Conflicts of Interest, I wrote about a proposal in Congress to modify the tax laws relating to carried interests. However, now like Ko-Ko, carried...more

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Stock Options: To Qualify, or Not to Qualify? That is the Question.

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Options to purchase stock of an employer continue to be a popular form of equity-based compensation, particularly among start-ups and other privately-held companies. ...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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Unexpected Risks of Early Exercise Incentive Stock Options

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Canadian companies and their outside counsel occasionally ask about the ability to grant early exercise incentive stock options (“ISOs”) to limit the impact of the U.S. alternative minimum tax (“AMT”) to their U.S. employees....more

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Unexpected Risks of Early Exercise ISOs

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Companies that permit the grant of early exercise incentive stock options (“ISOs”) do so primarily to limit the impact of the alternative minimum tax (“AMT”). However, due to fairly counterintuitive tax regulations,...more

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The Boricua Option – The Taxation of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) as a Puerto Rican Resident - Another Good Reason to Move to La...

Overview - Many professional living and working in Silicon Valley over the last twenty years have become very wealthy as a result of their participation in company stock options plans – qualified and non-qualified....more

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