Employment Arrangements

We represent both senior executives and companies in structuring and negotiating employment, retention, and termination arrangements. Our individual clients include high-profile executives in industries such as investment banking, investment management, telecommunications, publishing, and advertising, and our corporate clients include companies in a wide range of industries in negotiating complex employment and equity arrangements with key employees. We have represented:

• A chief executive officer and chairman of the board of a public company in connection with his negotiations to serve simultaneously as executive chairman of a second public company.

• Senior managers of hedge funds and "bulge bracket" investment banks in connection with the negotiation of agreements relating to the terms and conditions of their departures from such firms and the organization of new businesses, including ventures seeded by or otherwise "spun-off" from their former employers.

• A highly compensated hedge fund manager in the negotiation of a multi-year contract with one of the nation's leading hedge funds.

• A well-known investment firm in connection with the preparation and negotiation of employment and equity arrangements with its key personnel.

• A money manager in connection with a long-term cross-border employment and investment partnership arrangement with a substantial privately held investment enterprise.

• A privately held publishing firm in connection with the structuring and documentation of employment and long-term incentive arrangements for a new CEO.

• A group of several dozen investment bankers in connection with their proposed resignations from a major investment banking firm and their eventual renegotiation of long-term employment contracts with that firm.

• A group of executives in connection with their employment and restricted stock arrangements with a joint venture company in the telecommunications industry.

• A group of investment bankers in connection with their retention by their firm's successor and their long-term employment arrangements.

• A well-known advertising executive in connection with his resignation from one firm and his negotiation of a new employment package with another firm.

• A partner of a Big Four accounting firm in connection with his resignation from the firm.

• A large group of retired partners of a Big Four accounting firm in connection with preservation of their pension rights in the context of a substantial restructuring of the firm's various lines of business.

• Several portfolio companies of private equity clients in connection with the development and implementation of their equity incentive plans and related grant instruments for key employees and other equity-based incentive arrangements.