Jeff is Chair of Morrison Cohen’s Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Department, where he advises clients on executive compensation and general employment matters.
Jeff represents a broad array of clients in connection with their executive compensation and employment matters, including designing, reviewing, negotiating, drafting and implementing employment agreements, separation agreements, settlement agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, equity compensation programs, incentive and deferred compensation arrangements, and other employment-related documents. In connection with such representation, Jeff provides commercial and practical advice, and addresses the income and excise tax consequences, securities laws implications, litigation risks, and general corporate and governance aspects of such arrangements.
Jeff’s clients include public and private companies of all sizes (including family offices, private equity firms, hedge funds, portfolio companies, consulting firms, medical offices, real estate companies, technology firms, fashion houses, and public relations and marketing firms), in all phases of their operations and in connection with a variety of commercial transactions.
Jeff’s clients also include CEOs, COOs, CFOs and other senior executives of public and private companies; investment bankers, portfolio managers, private equity professionals, traders, analysts, and other employees of financial service firms; doctors, lawyers, accountants, and pharmaceutical/biotech industry professionals; partners, members, shareholders and other business owners; and employees of companies in general.
Jeff has almost 25 years of experience as an adviser to companies and executives, and clients therefore benefit from his deep knowledge of market practice and his understanding of the sensitive, complex, and personal nature of employment relationships.
Jeff joined Morrison Cohen as a partner in 2007. He started his career in 1997 as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Before joining Morrison Cohen, Jeff spent 5 years as in-house counsel at UBS Investment Bank, providing legal support on U.S. tax, U.S. securities, and general legal matters relating to the design, implementation and operation of UBS’s world-wide incentive compensation, equity, and deferred compensation plans.