Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
TRAs: Benefits, Complexities (and Private Jets) Explained with Tax Attorney David Peck
Revisiting Financial Institution Incentive Compensation Rules Under Dodd-Frank — The Consumer Finance Podcast
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
Multiemployer Pension Plans in Mergers and Acquisitions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Equity Award Delegations for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 – Top-Hat Plans — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Health and Welfare Plan Developments — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Qualified Plans — Special Edition Podcast
Navigating Noncompetes: A Comprehensive Guide – Part 1 – Hiring to Firing Podcast
December 1st Deadline to Adopt Executive Compensation Clawback Policies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Partial Plan Terminations
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Using Equity Incentives to Attract and Retain Key Team Members
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
California Employment News: The Executive Pay Exemption
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Meet the Securities and Exchange (and Human Resources) Commission
What Non-US Startups Need to Know About Granting Stock Options
Change of Control: Golden Parachute Rules in the Sale Process
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PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Plan Administrators’ 2020 Year-End Checklist
In a competitive talent market, companies are reevaluating executive compensation packages to attract and retain top leadership. Compensation generally includes a base level of compensation combined with some form of...more
On this episode of “Just Compensation,” Darren Goodman, Sophia Mokotoff, and Taryn E. Cannataro discuss equity compensation that can be issued by partnerships, with a special focus on profits interests. Profits interests are...more
As 2023 comes to an end, we are pleased to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our To Do Lists in four separate SW Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered health and welfare plan...more
A Beijing appellate court has expressed its view that a multinational employer’s equity plan for its employees constitutes an employment dispute, which would render it subject to Chinese law. This is the opposite position...more
As a result of recent market trends, US public companies and their compensation committees face challenging decisions as they seek to maximize shareholder value while retaining and competitively incentivizing key employees....more
Partners Dotan Barnea and Darren Goodman talk with Taryn Cannataro about what a startup outside of the United States should do if it is considering granting stock options to employees in the U.S. Such situations give rise to...more
Last week, the SEC announced the adoption of Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 120 (SAB 120), which provides guidance for companies as to how they should recognize and disclose the cost of providing “spring-loaded” awards to...more
As 2020 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. We are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and...more
COVID-19 has left many companies to balance competing responsibilities. While the primary focus is on taking care of employees and ensuring business continuity, new challenges are arising in appropriately managing executive...more
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business community is unprecedented. Every company and executive is questioning the effects the disease will have on their business, employees, customers, and local and global...more
Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code requires corporations to provide information statements to employees (including former employees) and information filings to the IRS regarding exercises of incentive stock options...more
We are often asked by our private company clients about making changes to outstanding stock options. In some cases, changes to the number of shares subject to an option are needed, or to the vesting schedule, or to the...more
As 2019 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and...more
Here are ten common questions I receive from clients about issuing equity (stock or options) to service providers (advisors/directors/officers/employees/consultants)...more
The use of total shareholder return (“TSR”) plans as a form of performance-based compensation continues to grow in popularity as energy companies look for more efficient ways to match executive pay with performance....more
Executive compensation is fraught with complicated regulatory and tax issues that can surprise even seasoned executives. This article summarizes five frequently encountered traps and discusses some ways to avoid them...more
An HR professional wears many hats relative to executive and key employee compensation. This article addresses three primary responsibilities of the HR professional: (1) understanding the core elements of a typical key...more
The purpose of granting equity to management, employees and certain consultants is to align the interests of the parties pivotal to the growth of your company with the interests of investors. There are a number of different...more
As reported in Part 4 of our 2018 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List, Section 6039 of the Code requires employers to provide a written information statement to each employee or former employee and file information returns...more
Clients frequently ask if they can provide incentive compensation to their employees and executives in a manner that gives them flexibility and drives performance, but receives coveted capital gains treatment. This usually...more
On August 21, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released Notice 2018-68 (the “Notice”), which clarifies a number of changes made to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) by last year’s Public Law...more
Requirement to Report For (1) any exercise of an incentive stock option (ISO) during 2017 or (2) transfer during 2017 of a share previously purchased pursuant to a tax-qualified employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), the...more
The Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017 was recently signed into law creating two important changes in executive compensation, which we outline below. The Tax Bill Permits Certain Employees to Elect to Defer Taxation of Qualified...more
The House Ways and Means Committee on November 2, 2017, released the proposed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which may have significant impact on the taxation of equity and performance-based compensation for both private and public...more