Services Executive Compensation

Kean Miller provides strategic counsel to publicly and privately held companies, governmental employers, and non-profits on a wide array of complex executive compensation matters. We have extensive experience analyzing, designing, negotiating, drafting, implementing, and administering various compensation arrangements.  Our attorneys evaluate multiple factors to help clients achieve their financial goals, including tax, ERISA, corporate, securities, stock exchange, employment law, and accounting issues. We leverage our in-depth knowledge and expertise of Louisiana and federal law to help clients secure and retain talented employees through considerate compensation agreements.

Areas of Expertise

• Bonus Arrangements
• Equity Based Compensation
• Executive Employment and Severance Arrangements
• Governmental Employers
• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Similar Transactions
• Non-Employee Director/Consultant Compensation
• Qualified and Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Planning
• Supplemental Retirement and Deferred Compensation
• Tax-Exempt Entities

Representative Experience

• Representation of privately held companies in connection with the preparation and negotiation of employment agreements for executive officers.
• Representation of public companies in connection with the preparation and negotiation of employment agreements for executive officers.
• Representation of executives in connection with the review and negotiation of employment agreements.
• Representation of management with regard to the negotiation of separation and release agreements relative to executive employees.