executives & professionals practice group

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 New York, Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco 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
• Bonus, compensation, and equity agreements
• Severance, retention, and change-of-control agreements
• Employee liftouts and corporate restructuring
• Restrictive covenants, including trade secret, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-competition and non-solicitation 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 Internal Revenue Code Section 409A
• Change in control issues under Internal Revenue Code 280G

(Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.)