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Alston & Bird

IRS Introduces Online Filing Option for Section 83(b) Elections!

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Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group discusses the Internal Revenue Service’s long-awaited Form 15620 changes that enable service providers to file their Section 83(b) elections online....more

Ropes & Gray LLP

French Tax Administration Issues Draft Comments on Management Package Tax Reform

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On July 23, 2025, the French Tax Administration released its initial draft guidance in the BOFiP (Bulletin Officiel des Finances Publiques) (the “Tax Comments”) on the new tax regime for Management Packages introduced by the...more

Stevens & Lee

Victory for Community Hospitals and Nonprofits: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Landmark Tax Exemption Decision

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On May 30, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in Pottstown School District v. Montgomery County Board of Assessment Appeals. In a 5-2 decision, the court held that Pottstown Hospital in Montgomery...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Comparative Summary of Equity Incentive Plans for Private Companies

Equity incentive plans are a powerful tool for encouraging and rewarding a company’s employees and leadership, who may include prospective investors, through different kinds of equity interests and structures. Different...more

Williams Mullen

PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) Explained

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Thinking about succession planning, employee engagement, or selling your business? On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined by Nona Massengill, a partner focusing on Executive...more

Walkers

Channel Islands a strategic hub for employee share incentive plans

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In today’s competitive business environment, share incentive plans continue to be a popular tool for aligning employee interests with those of management and shareholders. Guernsey and Jersey, as leading offshore financial...more

Pillsbury - Propel

Equity Compensation Primer: ISOs v. NSOs

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Many early-stage companies give employees, consultants, advisors, board members and other service providers (referred to as “service providers”) an opportunity to own a stake in the company through the grant of compensatory...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Tricky Compliance Issues for Companies When an Executive Terminates Employment: 409A Applicability to Severance

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Executive employment relationships are rarely permanent. When an executive or other senior-level employee terminates employment, companies often must deal with difficult tax, equity, and benefits issues that arise in...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Section 280G Unpacked: Pitfalls and Planning for Tech Startups

In this episode of Just Compensation, Megan Monson and Jessica I. Kriegsfeld talk to Anthony O. Pergola, Vice Chair of Lowenstein’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice group, about the complexities and challenges of...more

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Executive Use of Corporate Aircraft: Navigating Tax, SEC Disclosure and Other Key Considerations

Companies are increasingly allowing their chief executive officers and, in certain circumstances, other executives to use corporate jets (which may be chartered flights or fractionally or fully owned aircraft) for personal...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Key Takeaways – Beyond Sweat Equity: Modern Compensation Strategies for Enhanced Engagement & Retention

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Today’s employment environment requires companies large and small to be deliberate when designing their compensation strategy. Our panelists presented a high-level overview of the options available to executive teams when...more

DLA Piper

Tax Considerations for Public Company Equity Incentive Awards

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This is the third part of a series covering certain securities law, corporate governance, and tax considerations related to stock options and restricted stock unit (RSU) awards granted by public companies....more

Cooley LLP

Proposed Regulations Issued Under Internal Revenue Code § 162(m)

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Changes effective starting on January 1, 2027 - In the last few days preceding President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the IRS under the Biden administration proposed regulations to implement amendments to Internal Revenue...more

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Fiscalité des « management packages »

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La loi de finances pour 2025 prévoit l’instauration d’un régime fiscal et social spécifique pour les gains réalisés par les managers à raison des participations qu’ils détiennent dans les groupes dans lesquels ils exercent...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

TRAs: Benefits, Complexities (and Private Jets) Explained with Tax Attorney David Peck

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TRAs can be advantageous if used properly. When you get numbers in front of people in the right situation, it catches their attention. The key is to get people focused and make sure they understand the complexities. In this...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

What Non-US Startups Need to Know About Granting Stock Options

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Partners Dotan Barnea and Darren Goodman talk with Taryn Cannataro about what a startup outside of the United States should do if it is considering granting stock options to employees in the U.S. Such situations give rise to...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

[Webinar] COVID-19 Legislative Update – Health, Pension and Tax Provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act - March 16th, 1:00 pm -...

On March 10, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319, the “Act”), sending it to President Biden for his signature later this week. The Act includes a number of significant health,...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Final Regulations Issued on Deductions for Executives’ Compensation

Executives of public companies looking to their personal and company compensation planning in the New Year face a host of challenges. They and their compensation committees do, however, have the benefit of long-awaited...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Policy Outlook: How The 2020 Election Outcomes Will Impact Your Business - Health Policy

In this session, health law policy authorities discussed changes likely in 2021 in a Biden Administration and how these changes will impact business objectives and strategies for health industry stakeholders...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] Policy Outlook: How The 2020 Election Outcomes Will Impact Your Business - November 5th, 12:00 pm - 2:15 pm EST

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Are you prepared for the critical impacts of the US election outcome to you and your business in 2021 and beyond? Join McDermott’s lawyers and our policy and lobbying team for perspective on the effects of administration...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Certain Deferred Compensation Plans Must Be Amended by December 31, 2020

Transition relief for amending nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans to reflect the 2017 amendments to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code will expire on December 31, 2020. ...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Planning Opportunities Inspired by IRS Memo on Taxation of Equity Awards

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Synopsis - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a Generic Legal Advice Memorandum, GLAM 2020-004 (the IRS Memo) dated May 18, 2020 addressing the timing of income and payroll tax withholding on three types of employee...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Releases Proposed Regulations on Executive Compensation for Tax-Exempt Organizations

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The Internal Revenue Service and US Department of the Treasury have released proposed regulations governing the excise tax imposed by Internal Revenue Code Section 4960 on certain executive compensation paid to employees of...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Executive Compensation at Tax-Exempt Organizations Back in the Limelight – IRS Issues New Guidance

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS recently issued proposed regulations providing guidance under Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 4960, which provides for an excise tax on tax-exempt organizations that pay certain executives in...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Proposed Section 162(m) Regulations Affect REIT Compensation Arrangements

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Recently proposed IRS regulations reverse the reasoning of several past IRS private letter rulings regarding the application of the $1 million compensation cap of Section 162(m) to UPREIT structures in publicly traded REITs...more

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