Executive Compensation

Our attorneys regularly help clients to structure incentive, deferred compensation and stock option plans for key executives.

Hall Estill has responded to the growing need for sophisticated expertise in planning, funding and administering employee benefits and executive compensation plans, as well as providing counsel in the analysis of ERISA tax, labor, age discrimination and securities implications. Our clients include publicly traded and privately held companies, small businesses, tax-exempt entities, financial institutions and healthcare providers.

We assist our clients:

• Design, supervise and fund retirement programs, including counseling on stock ownership and options, deferred compensation, health and accident plans, and life insurance programs;
• Design and administer defined contribution and benefit plans for companies and tax-exempt entities;
• Structure incentive, deferred compensation and stock option plans for key executives;
• Analyze cost containment in medical plans;
• Draft employee communications to prevent liability exposure;
• Structure flexible benefit plans;
• Address securities issues for publicly traded companies: Section 16(b) issues, registration of employee benefit plans, as well as employee benefit and executive compensation issues that arise with mergers and dispositions;
• Design and administer ERISA welfare benefit and cafeteria plans;
• Give fiduciary counsel regarding ERISA liability; and
• Determine potential age or other discrimination issues associated with a particular program, such as an early retirement or reductions in force.

For further details, please see our Extended Information