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Lippes Mathias LLP

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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Equity Compensation Highlight: Stock Options and Restricted Stock

Start-up and early stage companies commonly offer equity compensation to attract talent, encourage employee retention, and align company and employee interests on business objectives. There are several different types of equity...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Key Considerations for Emerging Companies: Equity Compensation

Equity compensation – which links the self-interests of a company’s service providers with the interests of the company and its investors – is a compelling incentive for start-up companies to attract and motivate employees...more

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Court Denies Bid for New Election as a Result of Misleading Disclosures on Restricted Stock Awards

In 2015, the stockholders of nominal defendant, Investors Bancorp, Inc. (“Investors Bancorp” or the “Company”), voted to approve an equity incentive plan (“EIP”) adopted by the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”)....more

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Executive Decisions – Putting in Place Effective Employment Agreements for Company Executives

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During this webinar, attorneys Doug Currier and Scott Connolly discussed best practices for putting in place effective executive employment agreements, including inbound agreements and separation agreements. Topics discussed...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

HR and HSR: Insider Purchases and Executive Compensation Can Require Antitrust Reporting

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Quick: Does your company have any insiders who either now or in the future may own $90 million or more in company stock?  The CEO?  The founder?  A member of the board?  If so, then now is the time for a crash course in the...more

Hutchison PLLC

Motivating Your Startup’s Team: Restricted Stock or Stock Options?

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There are a variety of forms that equity compensation can take, but the two most prevalent in the startup environment when the startup is a corporation are restricted stock and stock options. Many new entrepreneurs are...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

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The IRS Issues 83(i) Guidance: Opportunity to “Opt Out”

IRS guidance on new law permitting income tax deferral for private company equity compensation awards provides clarity by introducing more rules. The Section 83(i) deferral opportunity is only available for awards granted...more

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SEC Amendment to Rule 701 May Expand the Use of Equity Compensation by Private Companies

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The Congressionally-mandated amendment aims to ease the disclosure burdens of private companies that grant compensatory stock to employees. Grants of securities to employees, including stock options, restricted stock and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

A Reminder to Track Rule 701 Equity Awards to U.S. Residents

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Canadian companies relying on Rule 701 under the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt their U.S. awards of stock options and other types of compensatory equity (such as RSUs and PSUs), need to track on an ongoing basis the amount...more

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Common U.S. Securities Problems with Canadian Stock-Based Compensation Plans

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We are frequently asked to review Canadian companies’ stock option, restricted share unit (RSU), performance share unit (PSU), deferred share unit (DSU), and other stock-based compensation plans for U.S. securities law...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

On November 2, 2017, the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives released its tax reform bill titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “House Bill”). On November 6, 2017, Kevin Brady, Chairman of the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Practical Advice for Compliance with Recent Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) Regulations

The recent amendments to the Section 162(m) regulations largely follow the changes set forth in the proposed regulations issued in 2011, clarifying two exceptions from the Section 162(m) tax deductibility limit...more

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