Service Area
Executive Agreements & Compensation
Counsel for organizations, boards, and senior leaders negotiating, approving, documenting, and managing executive relationships.
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How we help.
We structure executive relationships and the board or committee processes required to approve and manage them.
CEO and senior executive agreements
Draft and negotiate employment, service, appointment, and other executive agreements.
Executive compensation
Structure salary, incentive compensation, bonuses, retention arrangements, benefits, and deferred or contingent compensation.
Incentives and performance terms
Define performance measures, discretion, approval, vesting, payment conditions, clawbacks, and treatment at termination.
Executive authority and delegation
Align contractual roles with officer authority, delegated powers, reporting lines, and decision rights.
Restrictive covenants and ownership
Address confidentiality, invention assignment, non-solicitation, noncompetition where permitted, and continuing obligations.
Leadership transition and succession
Coordinate authority, succession, interim arrangements, communications, approvals, records, and continuing obligations.
Executive separation
Negotiate separation terms, releases, compensation, benefits, transition duties, access, communications, and post-employment obligations.
Board and committee approval
Support disinterested review, compensation analysis, conflicts, tax-exempt considerations, minutes, resolutions, and defensible documentation.