Fox Rothschild LLP ERISA and Executive Compensation partner Adam B. Cantor served as a panel member at the American Conference Institute’s (ACI) “Forum on Minimizing Legal Risks in the Design, Implementation & Administration of Executive Compensation,” held on July 22-23 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Chicago.
ACI’s conference is designed to provide counsel, consultants, business leaders and others with practical information on emerging best practices and new legal requirements applicable to executive compensation plans and arrangements. Cantor served as a panel member for the session on “Dissecting Common Design Issues and Problem Areas Under Section 409A Guidance and Using Clarifications Offered by the Corrections Process to Your Advantage When Advising Clients and Drafting Future Plans.” He focused his discussion on the complex area of change in control issues and opportunities under 409A, a timely topic given the SEC’s new proxy disclosure rules and the enhanced Congressional attention to shareholder “say on pay” legislation.
Cantor focuses his practice on employee benefits, ERISA, employment law, executive compensation, deferred compensation including 409A planning and compliance, and business succession planning. His clients include private and public companies, limited liability companies, partnerships and individuals. Cantor counsels clients in connection with equity compensation plans; deferred compensation plans, qualified retirement plans and health and welfare plans; and ERISA litigation strategies and pension matters arising in connection with bankruptcy proceedings.
Cantor also structures and manages employee benefits-related business transactions, such as ESOP purchases of employer stock and qualified plan spin-offs, mergers and consolidations. In addition, he counsels compensation committees of public companies with respect to executive compensation matters and investment committees of qualified plans with respect to fiduciary compliance under ERISA.
A frequent presenter on various employee benefits-related issues to professional groups, accounting firms and employee benefits consulting firms, Cantor is also the author or co-author of numerous articles and firm-issued client alerts on wide range of ERISA and employee benefits issues.
Most recently, Cantor has served as the featured speaker at the Westchester, New York and Fairfield, Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, delivering a January 2010 presentation titled “Navigating the Minefields: Hot Topics in Executive Compensation,” that covered such topics as the SEC’s new proxy disclosure rules, “say on pay” and shareholder activism, and the Fox Tax Law Review, delivering a February 2009 presentation titled “The Impact of Section 409A Under the Final Regulations on Deferred Compensation Arrangements.” He also has co-presented for Lawline on the Bank Secrecy Act and the FBAR rules, delivering with one of his partners a September 2009 presentation titled “The United States Government’s Assault on Overseas Bank and Securities Accounts.” Cantor has written extensively on the design and administration of deferred compensation and equity compensation plans, including IRS Section 409A and 457A compliance, published in the May/June 2009 issue of Business Entities.
Cantor earned his LL.M. in Taxation and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000 and 1997 respectively; his M.A. from Columbia University in 1987; and his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1985.
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