Executives & Professionals

Executives and Professionals Practice Group Leadership

Wayne N. Outten      Wendi Lazar

Outten & Golden’s lawyers understand the legal, business, and professional implications of entering and exiting employment and partnership agreements of all kinds. Our lawyers have considerable experience negotiating – and helping clients negotiate – such agreements, as well as litigating contractual claims when appropriate.

The lawyers of Outten & Golden in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut, have extensive experience handling a broad range of matters of particular import to executives and professionals, including: 

• Offer letters and employment agreements for executives, managers, and other employees
• Agreements for partners, independent contractors, and other talent
• Retention, bonus, compensation, and equity agreements
• Severance retention, and change-of-control agreements
• Employee liftouts and corporate restructuring
• Restrictive covenants, including trade secret, non-disclosure, non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality clauses
• Expatriate agreements, including secondment, employment and severance agreements
• Employment-related immigration issues
• Executive restructuring in mergers + acquisitions and bankruptcy proceedings
• Deferred compensation issues under Section 409A
• Change in control issues under 280G

* Contact New York City, NY or Stamford, CT executive employment lawyer

Executive Contracts & Compensation - Articles of Interest

Termination - What To Do If You are Fired (26KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten
Outten & Golden LLP

Employment Agreements - Change of Control Agreements (26KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten
Law Journal Newsletters' Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report, April 10, 2001

Employment Agreements - Negotiating Employment Agreements (64KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten
Executive Compensation, editors Yale D. Tauber and Donald R. Levy, 2003

Employment Agreements - Non-Compete Agreements - Emerging Issues From The Perspective of Employee's Counsel (118KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten, Anne Golden and Nantiya Ruan
Outten & Golden LLP

Partnership Law - Can Law Firm Partners Sue the Firm for
Employment Discrimination (72KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten and Justin M. Swartz
Law Journal Newsletters' Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report, Februrary 2004

Partnership Law - Clients - To Whom Do They Belong (41KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten and Douglas C. James
Outten & Golden LLP

Partnership Law - Law Partner Explusion (88KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten and Sean Farhang
Law Journal Newsletters' Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report, September and October 2004

Partnership Law - The Financial Rights of Departing Law Partners (61KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten and Sean Farhang
Law Journal Newsletters' Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report, December 2000 and January 2001

Settlement Agreements - Negotiating and Drafting Settlement Agreements (88KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten
Executive Compensation, editors Yale D. Tauber and Donald R. Levy, 2003

Termination - Top Ten Ways to Avoid Employee Lawsuits (27KB - PDF)
by Wayne N. Outten
Outten & Golden LLP

Negotiating Out of Restrictive Covenants (69KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
Outten & Golden LLP

Representing Employees In The Brave New World of 409A: New Rules on Deferred Compensation and Severance (85KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
Outten & Golden LLP

Representing Physicians With Non-Competition Agreements: Is the Law Changing? (50KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar with research by Katherine Olshansky, Law Clerk
Outten & Golden LLP

Counseling Multi-National Employees: Their Rights And Remedies Under US Law (184KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
Outten & Golden LLP

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - The Plight of H-1B Employees and The Challenges for Those who Represent Them (87KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
Outten & Golden LLP

Performers and Athletes Received A Cold Reception After 9/11 - But Are Things Getting Warmer? (103KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
Immigration Options For Artists and Entertainers

409A Rules on Deferred Compensation Severance Pay (58KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
New York Law Journal

Employment Agreements and Cross Border Employment - Confidentiality, Trade Secret, and Other Restrictive Covenants in a Global Economy (1122KB - PDF)
by Wendi Lazar
ABA ERR/International Labor and Employment Law Subcommittee Annual Meeting - September 2008

What German Employees Must Know When Coming to Work in the U.S. (180KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
German American Trade Magazine

Executive Compensation - Changing Economy Impacts Executive Pay (65KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
BNA

Executive Employment Agreements (180KB - PDF)
by Wendi S. Lazar
BNA

Office Locations:
3 Park Avenue 29th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (212) 245-1000		Four Landmark Square Suite 201 Stamford, CT 06901 Telephone: (203) 363-7888