C-Suite Compensation
Practice Expertise
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Corporate
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Tax
Areas of Practice
- Corporate
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Tax
- Accounting Firm Mergers and Acquisitions
- Emerging Growth and Venture Capital
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- ERISA Litigation
- Sustainability and ESG View More
Profile
He leads the Firm’s Compensation Practice Group. Before entering private practice, Tony served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Representative Experience
Corporate Representation: Advises private and publicly-traded clients and their boards of directors on compensation and benefits matters, including:
- Drafting and maintaining equity and synthetic equity plans
- Drafting CD&As
- Addressing issues under applicable federal and state securities laws
- Addressing listing requirements under NYSE, NASDAQ and TSX exchanges
- Advising on institutional shareholder expectations and requirements
- Advising pre-IPO companies on their compensation arrangements
- Advising on various tax issues relating to the deductibility of compensation
- Negotiating and preparing documents for the hiring and firing of key employees
- Drafting executive agreements under U.S. and/or PRC laws
- Structuring international compensation arrangements, including recharge agreements, international assignments and secondment agreements
- Negotiating, designing and drafting compensatory profits interests for partnerships and LLCs taxed as a partnership
- Designing, drafting and administering retirement plans (e.g. 401(k), 403(b) and defined benefit plans) and health and welfare plans (including self-funded arrangements)
Transactions: Advises clients on compensation and benefit issues associated with corporate transactions, including:
- Tailoring of transaction documents
- Performing Section 280G analyses and associated benchmarking
- Designing change-in-control bonus plans, management carve-out agreements and other retention arrangements
- Drafting option cancellation/assumption agreements and inducement plans
- Negotiating non-compete and non-solicitation clauses
- Addressing incentive and retention issues
- Merging employee benefit plans
Section 409A: Helps clients comply with all aspects of Section 409A and its application to traditional non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements, equity plans, employment and severance arrangements, bonus arrangements and reimbursement arrangements
ESOPs: Designs and implements a business owner's sale of stock to an employee stock ownership plan for the purpose of triggering an exit strategy, deferring capital gains taxes and implementing succession strategies
Executive Representation: Represents numerous executives in complex negotiations of their hiring or termination of employment
Education
BA, Michigan State University, 1993
Areas of Practice
- Corporate
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
- Tax
- Accounting Firm Mergers and Acquisitions
- Emerging Growth and Venture Capital
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- ERISA Litigation
- Sustainability and ESG
Professional Career
Articles
- Pay Ratio Not Applicable to Certain Externally-Managed Issuers
- Pay a Bonus Early to Increase a Corporation’s Cash Flow?, Executive Compensation Practical Pointers
- CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure: State and Local Governments May Add to Burden, Executive Compensation Practical Pointers
- Six Key Considerations: Executive Contract Negotiations, Straightline
- Pay Versus Performance Proxy Disclosure: Takeaways From Major Players In Three REIT Sectors, Real Estate Finance Journal
- Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, Thomson Reuters
- Compensation Governance Survey of the Top 25 Energy Companies
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