Employee Benefits & Compensation
Davis Law Group offers ongoing counsel on benefits and compensation matters to employers. Our significant experience and expertise regarding the laws and regulations that govern benefits and compensation matters enable the firm to offer focused, comprehensive and practical advice on design and compliance issues.
We work with businesses and their officers, boards and compensation committees in designing, drafting, implementing and administering executive compensation arrangements and employee benefit plans. In these matters, we employ our expertise in the relevant tax, employment, corporate, securities and stock exchange laws and regulations.
We offer significant experience in corporate merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, as well as corporate finance, bankruptcy and workout transactions, advising on identifying and disposing of assets and liabilities inherent in compensation and benefit plans, planning opportunities relating to integrating work forces and benefit plans and strategies for negotiating these issues in the transaction.
We are experienced at designing, negotiating, drafting and implementing executive compensation arrangements and employee benefit plans and arrangements of all types and in all contexts, including:
- CEO and other senior executive employment agreements and benefit arrangements
- “Change in Control” and other severance plans and arrangements
- Bonus and other annual and long-term incentive compensation plans, including plans that qualify as “performance-based” under US tax laws
- Stock option and other equity-based compensation plans, for both public and private companies
- Tax-qualified pension and profit sharing plans
- Nonqualified deferred compensation plans, SERPs and other retirement plans and arrangements
- Health care and other welfare benefit plans and arrangements
- Structuring ERISA-qualified venture capital and real estate operating companies and other investment vehicles
