Tyler Richardson

Overview

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.

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.