Lennox Mark

Experienced guidance on employee benefits, executive compensation and related tax implications

Lennox Mark advises on a range of employee benefits matters, including non-qualified deferred compensation, global equity administration, employee tax mobility and entity integration. He drafts executive compensation agreements and equity incentive plans, ensures compliance with public company disclosure requirements, analyzes compensation and employment arrangements for tax and securities compliance, and advises on cross-jurisdictional employer obligations, restrictive covenants and other employment matters. Lennox also has experience handling:

• Tax qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements
• Global equity administration
• Employee mobility and workforce management
• Service provider classification
• Cross-border transactions and multijurisdictional analysis

Lennox is an emotionally intelligent, pragmatic attorney who partners with his clients to help them structure accessible solutions to their most urgent problems. He effectively translates complex, nuanced legal issues into terms that are easy for lay professionals to understand, and he compresses big projects into clear, actionable steps.

• Designs and implements broad-based global equity compensation programs, including drafting equity incentive plans and agreements, advising corporate board compensation committees on the tax implications of granting equity and navigating a multijurisdictional securities compliance landscape.
• Handles discourse between employers and U.S. and non-U.S. tax and securities government regulatory agencies.
• Advises public and private clients on the tax implications incident to granting ESPP, RSUs, qualified and non-qualified stock options, and phantom equity.
• Conducts due diligence in the context of corporate transactions to analyze compensation arrangements for compliance with U.S. IRC § 280G and 409A.
• Compiles post-transaction step plans to facilitate entity and workforce integration for multijurisdictional employers.

• Advised Fortune 500 multinational public companies on the grant of equity compensation to broad-based employee population.
• Represented tech start-up in the negotiation and implementation of top hat compensation plan for chief executive.
• Counseled U.K.-based entity in the conversion of U.K. ordinary shares into U.S. common shares.
• Advised private employer on securities compliance for private offering of shares in multiple Asia-Pacific markets without listing on a public exchange.
• Advised multinational employer regarding employee mobility issues for a post-pandemic remote workforce.