Employment Issues When Buying/Selling Companies - On Demand - Expires 3/12/16

Labor, Employment and Benefits Legal Issues When Buying and Selling Companies

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Taken from the briefing Labor, Employment and Benefits Legal Issues When Buying and Selling Companiesrecorded March, 2014.

Buying and selling companies raises a number of difficult legal and practical issues that transactional, compensation and employment lawyers – both in-house and outside counsel – must navigate successfully for their clients.

Listen to Samuel Estreicher, Laurence M. Moss and Ronald E. Richman of the Employment and Employment Benefits practice group of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

Lecture Topics

Labor law issues in buying or selling a union-represented business or property, including: 

• Asset sale or stock sale?
• Decision bargaining or merely "effects" bargaining?
• Do you need to hire the seller's employees?
• Do you need to worry about employment issues at all if the union-represented employees are not direct employees of the seller, but, rather, employees of a managing company or other vendor?
• Special rules for NYC building service workers?

Employee benefit plan considerations related to an acquisition, including: 

• Which entity is the sponsor of the employee benefit plans?
• Will the employee benefit plans be acquired in connection with the transaction?
• Does the company or its affiliates sponsor a defined benefit pension plan or provide retiree medical benefits?

Executive compensation issues related to an acquisition, including: 

• How will equity based compensation be treated in the transaction?
• Will severance provisions in employment arrangements be triggered by the transaction?
• Will the executives be subject to parachute excise taxes and can they be avoided?

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CLE Credit: 1.00 unit

On Demand - Expires 3/12/16

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