Practice Expertise

  • Tax
  • Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
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Areas of Practice

  • Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
  • Tax
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Profile

Tyler concentrates his practice in the areas of executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements.

He advises clients on a range of compensation and benefits matters, along with related issues of tax, accounting, securities, and corporate governance.

Relevant Experience

  • Corporate Representation: Advises private and publicly-traded clients and their boards of directors on compensation and benefits matters, including:
    • Drafting CD&As
    • Drafting and maintaining equity and synthetic equity plans
    • Advising pre-IPO companies on their compensation arrangements
    • Preparing documents for the hiring and firing of key employees
    • Drafting executive agreements
    • Designing and drafting compensatory profits interests for partnerships and LLCs taxed as a partnership
  • Transactions: Advises clients on compensation and benefit issues associated with corporate transactions, including:
    • Tailoring of transaction documents
    • Performing Section 280G analyses and associated benchmarking
    • Designing change-in-control bonus plans, management carve-out agreements and other retention arrangements
    • Drafting option cancellation/assumption agreements and inducement plans
    • Addressing incentive and retention issues
  • Section 409A: Helps clients comply with all aspects of Section 409A and its application to traditional non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements, equity plans, employment and severance arrangements, bonus arrangements and reimbursement arrangements.

Education
BA, The University of Texas at Austin, Business Administration, 2008

Areas of Practice

  • Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits
  • Tax

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