Executive Compensation and Fringe Benefits

We devote a significant part of our practice to executive compensation. We advise clients extensively on section 409A compliance, and have redesigned and redrafted many executive agreements, plans and programs to comply with Section 409A’s complex new rules.  We routinely design and draft plans including SARs, stock options, parachute agreements, and executive retention and severance agreements. We also obtain rulings on these issues, and counsel clients on compliance-related issues under section 83, section 162(m) and section 404. 

News

• September 23, 2011
  Rosina Barker Gives 409A Presentation to the Southern Federal Tax Institute
• April 29, 2011
  Rosina Barker Spoke on Taxation of Executive Clawbacks
• December 16, 2010
  Rosina Barker Speaks to DC Bar on Clawbacks
• July 14, 2010
  Rosina Barker Speaks on 409A Corrections in ALI-ABA Webcast
• April 12, 2010
  Rosina Barker and Kevin O'Brien Publish Insights on Correcting 409A Document Failures
• February 24, 2010
  Rosina Barker Speaks to DC Bar on 409A corrections

Strategies & Opportunities

• Ivins, Phillips & Barker Section 409A Compliance Review

Publications

• September 23, 2011
  409A Failures: Correcting With and Without the IRS Formal Correction Programs
  46th Southern Federal Tax Institute
• November 2010
  Achieving Success in a Worker Classification Audit
  Practical Tax Strategies
• October 25, 2010
  Taxing Clawbacks
  Tax Notes
• April 12, 2010
  Document Failures in the Section 409A-Covered Plan: Correcting With and Without Notice 2010-6
  BNA Pension & Benefits Daily
• February 24, 2010
  409A Failures: Correcting Outside of the IRS's Formal Correction Programs
  Presentation to the DC Bar Tax Section Employee Benefits Committee