Drafting Executive Employment Agreements
Steven Mitchell Sack understands the legal, business, and professional implications of entering and exiting employment, partnership, business, and buy-sell agreements. He has extensive experience negotiating and helping clients negotiate such agreements, as well as reducing exposure to breach of contract litigation when appropriate.
Specific areas of Sack’s experience include:
- Drafting letters and employment agreements
- Crafting agreements for partners, independent contractors, consultants and commissioned salespeople
- Creating severance, retention, and change-of-control agreements
- Reviewing and advising clients on the merits of restrictive covenants
- Executive restructuring in mergers and acquisitions
- Negotiating severance packages for executives, officers and employees
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What is in an Executive Employment Contract?
Some of the important terms your executive employment contract may include are as follows:
- Job description and title
- Job requirements and functions
- Salary and benefits
- PTO, including sick and vacation days
- Stock options
- Eligibility for overtime
- Restrictive covenants (nondisclosure agreements, noncompete clauses, etc.)
- Causes for dismissal
- Severance details / “Golden parachute” agreement
Getting Yourself the Best Deal
If you want the best possible deal for your employment contract, you need to speak to a lawyer with experience handling executive contract negotiations. They can go through each part to ensure you have the best chance possible for success. That way, you can worry about working, not about whether you are getting a good deal.
Contact Steve Sack, The Employee’s Lawyer
Steven Mitchell Sack, the Employee’s Lawyer, is a New York employment lawyer with more than 45 years’ experience handling the many aspects of employment law. To inquire about a legal matter, please feel free to contact attorney Steven Sack at 917-371-8000 or stevensackatty@hotmail.com.
