Stock Option Repricing: What Do Tech Companies Need to Know, What Different Forms Do They Take, and How Can Repricing Contribute to a Motivated Workforce?
What Non-US Startups Need to Know About Granting Stock Options
Why is a 409A Valuation Important?
Revisiting Executive Compensation and Employee Incentive Plans
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
Given the significant decline in the stock prices of many companies over the past several months of 2022, a number of companies are reassessing their equity programs and considering repricing outstanding employee stock...more
Stock options are how cash-starved tech, and life sciences companies large and small can most easily recruit and retain talent. Stock options are also an excellent tool for bigtech and bigpharma companies to align the...more
This White Paper highlights some of the principal annual reporting requirements for employee stock plans that multinational companies most commonly encounter when offering these programs to their employees in selected...more
Stock options can provide a much-needed component of compensation for startup employees. Different types of equity compensation have different tax consequences with costs and benefits to the company and its employees. This...more
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
This client alert is intended to remind you of certain 2018 year-end reporting requirements under Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), with respect to stock issued to employees or former...more
On February 7, 2017, the Third Circuit affirmed a partial preliminary injunction order barring two former ADP employees from soliciting customers for their new employer for one year. This decision is notable as it affirmed...more
What's New? What's new and interesting about the new ISS "score card rules" are two sentences that say: (i) that an issuer's share plan proposal may pass the Shareholder Value Transfer ("SVT") test but still...more
As discussed in our December 16, 2010 blog article, the IRS issued final regulations in 2009 under Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) that require Employers to annually furnish each employee who exercised...more
Annual Information Statements and IRS Returns - Requirement to Report - For any exercise of an incentive stock option (ISO) or transfer of a share previously purchased pursuant to a tax-qualified employee stock...more
As reported in Part 1 of our 2013 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists, Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) requires employers to provide an information statement to each employee or former employee...more
Equity compensation in the form of stock options is a common means of compensating key contributors to a growing business, especially where the cash compensation that these individuals receive is below the market rate for the...more