Executive Compensation

Jackson Kelly's Executive Compensation and Benefits practice recognizes that in today's regulatory environment, clients need a law firm that can provide practical solutions that allow them to attract, reward, and retain talented executives and to address the multitude of legal issues requiring a high degree of knowledge in such areas as: 

• Securities law compliance, including the SEC's executive compensation disclosure rules, SEC registration, state blue sky law, insider trading issues, Rule 144 issues, stock exchange and NASDAQ listing requirements, and the interplay of Sarbanes-Oxley 
• Corporate law, including corporate governance issues arising from executive compensation programs and agreements 
• Taxation of executive and equity-based compensation, including Internal Revenue Code Sections 83, 409A, and 457(f) 
• ERISA compliance, including ERISA's requirements for "top-hat" plans and executive severance arrangements 
• Compliance with state and federal discrimination and wage and hour laws

In helping clients meet their goals of effective and legally compliant executive compensation programs, Jackson Kelly's Executive Compensation and Benefits practice provides its clients with an integrated team of professionals, well-versed in the many legal areas necessary to design such programs.  This multi-disciplinary team approach results in creative, sophisticated, efficient and practical solutions at a controllable cost, and provides the "one-stop shop" clients need to respond to the highly competitive marketplace for senior executives.