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Benjamin A. Vitcov

Partner
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Benjamin A. Vitcov Partner

Benny Vitcov advises both companies and individuals in connection with a wide range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters.  

Clients turn to Benny for tailored advice in all facets of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including negotiating and drafting employment and separation arrangements, designing, implementing, and managing incentive compensation and equity plans (including profits interests and stock option programs), and drafting and evaluating non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements.

Benny also represents companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, financing arrangements, and other corporate transactions, specifically as such transactions relate to employee benefits matters, overseeing the due diligence process, negotiation and drafting of transaction documents, and identifying and resolving issues that arise under the Internal Revenue Code (e.g., under Sections 83(b), 409A, and 280G), ERISA, and labor laws.

In addition, individual executives rely on Benny for strategic guidance and advice on their executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements, including negotiating, reviewing, and revising their employment agreements, consulting agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, separation and severance arrangements, and incentive and equity compensation packages.

Experience

  • Represented North Castle Partners, a consumer-focused private equity firm that partners with entrepreneurs and management teams in the healthy, active and sustainable living sector, in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in NEST New York, a leading fragrance lifestyle brand.
  • Represented Broad Sky Partners, a sector-focused private equity firm that partners with leading middle market business services and consumer companies, in connection with its investment in Fair Harbor, a sustainable beachwear company.

Recognition

Brooklyn Law School
     Online Editor, Brooklyn Law School Journal of Law and Policy
 

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Education

  • New York University School of Law, LL.M. (Tax)
  • Brooklyn Law School, J.D.
  • University of Central Florida, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • Florida

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