Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Employee benefits/Executive compensation

Partner

Brandon’s practice focuses on the representation of companies in their compensation and employee benefits matters, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.  He regularly advises clients on the design, drafting, and administration of equity-based compensation programs (including stock option, restricted stock, and other equity arrangements); employment, consulting, retention, severance, change in control, and deferred compensation arrangements; and the associated tax (including Section 409A), accounting, ERISA, and securities law implications. He also assists public and private companies with corporate governance and compliance matters, including compensation disclosures for proxy filings and other applicable securities filings, as well as employee communications and public announcements.

Speaker, “Through the Accounting Lens: Clawbacks, ESG and Discretion,” The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, October 2021. Co-author, "Legal Framework and Considerations for Implementing and Enforcing Clawbacks," Journal of Pension Benefits, Autumn 2020. Co-author, “Clawbacks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Trends," The Corporate Governance Advisor, March/April 2021. Speaker, “Compensation Confidential,” LaunchBio, January 2021 & May 2021. Speaker, "CEO Pay Ratio and More," The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, San Francisco Chapter, February 2017. Speaker, "How Public and Private Companies Should Prepare for the Requirements of the SEC's Clawback Rules," The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, San Francisco Chapter, August 2015.

LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 2008, With Distinction; Recipient, Employee Benefits Certificate J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 2006 B.A., Political Science, Boston College, 2001