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 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.