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Equity and Executive Compensation Issues for Technology Companies
The Vinson & Elkins team discussed equity and executive compensation issues affecting technology companies.
May 16, 2024
May 16, 2024 • 1-minute read
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“My work involves the intersection of tax, securities, and accounting rules as they relate to executive compensation. There is a high potential for confusion in this area, so it’s beneficial to companies and executive management teams to have somebody with deep experience who can help them navigate through it.”
Shane advises employers, executives and management teams on the tax and securities law implications of compensatory arrangements for a range of clients, with a special emphasis on private equity sponsored work and the complex tax issues associated with golden parachute payments and transfers of property for services. He also guides boards of directors and compensation committees on executive compensation matters, and assists public and private partnerships, corporations and REITs in designing, drafting and implementing severance and retention plans and equity-based compensation arrangements.
Working closely with the firm’s corporate practice group, Shane advises clients involved in mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, initial public offerings, and De-SPAC transactions, including target company management teams, on their post-transaction compensatory and benefits packages. From a corporate governance standpoint, he counsels clients with respect to proxy statement disclosure, shareholder approval issues involving equity compensation arrangements, and other compensation-related matters. Shane also advises clients on the design and administration of retirement plans, welfare plans, and payroll practices.
Shane is recognized by Chambers USA 2025, where one client notes that “He is very practical and collaborative.”
Shane serves as the Talent/Diversity lead for the ECB group.
Crestview Partners in its investment in Upwell Water, a water-focused specialty finance company
Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. in its $143 million initial public offering of common stock
Spredfast, a leading provider of social media management software and solutions, in the merger with Lithium Technologies via its private equity sponsor, Vista Equity Partners
SemGroup Corporation in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company, one of the largest oil terminals in the U.S., from Alinda Capital Partners
Targa Resources Partners and Targa Resources Corp. in the $7.7 billion acquisition of Atlas Pipeline Partners and Atlas Energy
Holly Corporation in the $7 billion merger with Frontier Oil Corporation, creating one of the largest independent refiners in the United States
Inergy and Inergy Midstream in an $8 billion multi-step combination transaction with Crestwood Midstream Partners and Crestwood Holdings
Southwest Airlines in its $3.4 billion acquisition of AirTran Holdings
Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on executive compensation and employee benefit aspects in connection with its $70 million initial public offering of common stock
Antero Midstream Partners LP in its $1.15 billion initial public offering of common units
Dell in its $3.9 billion public tender offer and acquisition of Perot Systems Corporation, an information technology company
The Carlyle Group in the acquisition of the North American power generation assets of Cogentrix Energy, including five coal and solar power projects and a development pipeline of gas and renewable projects, from The Goldman Sachs Group
Riverstone Holdings in the $1.275 billion sale of Dynamic Offshore Resources to SandRidge Energy
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Event Recaps
Equity and Executive Compensation Issues for Technology Companies
The Vinson & Elkins team discussed equity and executive compensation issues affecting technology companies.
May 16, 2024
May 16, 2024 • 1-minute read
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