Executive & Management Team Representation

We serve as trusted advisers to executives and management teams in orchestrating all aspects of employment and compensation arrangements. We negotiate agreements related to hiring, retention, separation, transaction-based compensation, and other issues pertinent to senior executives. Our lawyers also guide senior management in corporate transactions and the various arrangements implicated by them—with a keen eye to management teams’ compensation arrangements, C-suite status, and their unique position as parties to a transaction.

OUR SCOPE

Executives and management teams play a pivotal role in a company’s success. We support executives and management teams with:

  • Negotiation and renegotiation of executive compensation package terms, including management incentive plans (MIPs) and management’s investment equity, both in the public and the private company arenas
  • Negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, separation agreements, and contractual obligations, including noncompetition, nonsolicitation, confidentiality, clawback provisions, and releases 
  • Advocacy for and protection of executives’ interests in corporate transactions, including for rollover and coinvestment arrangements

OPTIMIZING MANAGEMENT TEAM OUTCOMES IN CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS

Our clients have found significant value in having a single dedicated and experienced law firm to represent management as a whole. Our approach focuses on management team members’ individual and collective interests, which can diverge from those of financial buyers and sellers. In these representations, we are not deal counsel—we represent the vital “third leg” of the transaction—helping to secure favorable outcomes and safeguard the interests of C-suite and key personnel at and post-closing.

We represent executives and management teams in an expansive range of transactional matters—from smaller deals to those valued at nearly $50 billion. Our experience includes:

  • Going-private transactions with private equity buyers 
  • Sales among private equity firms, including to successor funds or continuation vehicles 
  • Public company acquisitions of private companies
  • Spinoff and split-up transactions
  • Strategic acquisitions
  • Public company mergers
  • Initial public offerings (IPOs)
  • De-SPAC transactions

Having sat on all sides of the table, we have intimate knowledge of the perspectives of buyers, sellers, management teams, and individual executives. We work to ensure that deal terms meet overall goals while incentivizing management to work toward a successful closing and secure future.