Management advisory

Efficiently designed executive compensation arrangements focus management's attention on your organization's performance imperatives, thereby supporting its business plan and increasing shareholder value. We believe the primary purpose of management advisory programs is to align executive interests with and focus on the overall business objectives of your company. From that perspective, we work with you to develop programs tailored to the particular needs of your organization across a comprehensive range of business, technical, and financial issues relevant to effective plan design. We can help:

• Develop a compensation philosophy and supporting principles consistent with your business objectives
• Design appropriate peer groups for purposes of competitive analysis
• Develop tailored performance metrics and measurement systems
• Support your obligations for required reporting and disclosures, including say-on-pay
• Provide guidance and support during mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and other corporate transactions
• Design detailed compensation arrangements, including salary, annual bonus, long-term incentive, and equity-based programs
• Develop other arrangements, such retention, severance, and change-in-control agreements
• Provide financial analysis and what-if analyses
• Negotiate employment agreements and sign-on arrangements

In addition, we have experience with special circumstances that can arise from:

• Cross-border incentive and equity programs
• Partnership and LLC arrangements, including the design of carried interest arrangements
• Executive compensation for ESOP-owned companies
• Expert testimony