Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation & Executive Compensation

Miles & Stockbridge understands that to attract and retain executive talent, effective executive compensation plans must reflect market realities.

We advise public and private companies on all aspects of deferred compensation planning for executives, and our lawyers are familiar with the tax, accounting, disclosure and securities law considerations such plans require. We help companies draft plans that make allowances for contribution limits on qualified retirement plans.

We also help our clients comply with all administrative and legal requirements regarding the full range of executive compensation plans, as well as targeted incentive-for-performance pay plans and bonus plans. We work with our clients’ in-house benefits and tax personnel and their advisers on the proper design of supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs) and “mirror” supplemental savings plans that are coordinated with an existing qualified 401(k) savings plan. We also modify existing plans to account for changing market realities that may make stock options and other equity compensation plans more or less financially attractive and motivationally effective.