Our executive compensation and employee benefits lawyers advise companies, boards of directors, compensation committees and individual executives in a wide range of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinoffs, workouts and bankruptcies, initial public offerings and joint ventures. We also advise on the recruitment of senior executives, the design and implementation of equity-based retention and other compensation plans, and compliance with applicable tax, securities, disclosure, corporate governance, fiduciary and other requirements.
Our lawyers are widely regarded as leading advisers on such issues as senior executive employment and separation agreements, stock options and other equity-based compensation, golden parachute arrangements, deferred compensation and retirement benefits.
We advise on ERISA issues applicable to hedge funds and private equity vehicles, as well as ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction concerns arising in connection with venture capital investments and corporate transactions. Our clients also include asset managers, broker-dealers and investment bankers who provide various services to U.S. pension plans.
Our lawyers appear regularly before governmental agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor. In addition, we represent a variety of financial institutions that participate in the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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