Structuring Executive Compensation Packages: Addressing Pay, Severance, Restrictive Covenants, and More

Mr. Forni advises public and private companies, private equity firms, and executives to achieve strategic business objectives through bespoke executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements. He works with clients to solve issues that arise during corporate transactions and the ongoing management of equity and phantom equity plans, nonqualified and qualified deferred compensation plans, and health and welfare plans. Mr. Forni regularly drafts and negotiates employment agreements, separation agreements, and change in control and other incentive arrangements.

Ms. Stoffer practices in executive compensation and employee benefits law. She has spent more than 25 years, including many years with a large international law firm based in New York, counseling clients on equity and non-equity incentive plans and complex retirement plan and health and welfare plan compliance issues. Ms. Stoffer also served as the in-house employee benefits counsel for Time Warner Inc., assisting the company with challenging merger and acquisition issues as they related to a multitude of compensation and benefits arrangements covering a wide spectrum of employee classifications.

Mr. Teigman is a partner in the Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. He focuses his practice on executive compensation and benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and senior executive employment relationships. Mr. Teigman regularly counsels public and private companies on compensatory and benefit arrangements, such as equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives and employment, change-in-control, retention, separation and consulting agreements. He also advises on corporate governance, tax law and securities law related to employment matters.