A focused, practical treatise that will help you advise your clients on how to negotiate and implement complete, flexible executive compensation packages. Comprehensive, flexible compensation packages are critical to attract—and retain—top executives. Executive Compensation provides the resource information you need to advise your clients on crafting an agreement that contains all the right compensation elements— employment, severance and golden parachute provisions, annual and long-term incentive plans, deferred compensation and executive benefits (including financing, funding, and security), and perquisites. What’s more, this treatise will help you litigate or mediate effective settlements for your clients if disputes arise. The authors guide you through a series of logical steps to ensure that your clients’ executive compensation packages not only are complete at the time of implementation, but also have built-in flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances. Executive Compensation offers you guidance on: Basic elements. Assist your clients in negotiating the right executive compensation package. Help them design incentive and equity-based plans—including consideration of accounting and valuation issues—and nonqualified benefit programs. Advise clients on providing for financing of nonqualified plans, including life insurance benefits.
Entities requiring special considerations. Be prepared to provide comprehensive advice when your client goes through a merger or acquisition. Understand the special considerations unique to tax-exempt employers; companies using expatriate employees in their international operations; and private, closely held and new-economy companies. Arbitration, settlement, and litigation. When problems arise, turn to Executive Compensation for explanations of various approaches to a satisfactory resolution. You’ll also find special techniques for representing the company that is hiring or terminating an executive—or for representing the executive on the other side of the table.
No other resource offers the same level of in-depth analysis of all the factors to consider in designing and maintaining an effective executive compensation package. You get practical guidance on how to establish a clear and logical interrelationship among all the elements of the package.
