6. Stock, Stock Options, "Equity"
"My mistake was buying stock in my employer.
Now I worry about the lousy work I’m turning out."
Marvin Townsend, Cartoonist
i. Basics
- NL 1: FMLA – Great Tool to E-x-t-e-n-d Employment
- NL 2: Long Term Incentive Compensation: 10 Basic Concepts
- NL 3: Negotiating Equity Comp by “Minimum Value”
- NL 4: Offer Letter or Company Plan – Which One Governs?
- NL 5: “Employer Ask You to Sign an Agreement? Ask Your Employer to Pay Your Legal Cost”
- QA 1: “Can you explain what ‘warrants’ are?”
- QA 2: “What happens to my employee equity if the company is sold or IPO’d?”
- QA 3: “What is a ‘change of control’ for vesting purposes?”
- WD 1: Blackout Period – Key Words & Phrases
- WD 2: Carried Interest – Key Words & Phrases
- WD 3: Voluntary – Key Words & Phrases
ii. Acquiring
- NL 1: “Forming or Joining a Start-Up? – 16 Questions that Need to Be Answered”
- NL 2: Joinder Agreement . . . What’s That?
- NL 3: Negotiating Employment with a “Private Equity” Firm – 7 Surprises to Expect
- NL 4: Negotiating Stock, Options, Etc., in a Very “Relative” Way
- NL 5: Offered a Position and Shares in a Start-Up? – 10 Traps in the Legal Papers, and Your Ways Out
- NL 6: Private Equity: Comp Upon Liquidity
- NL 7: RSU’s: Restricted Stock Units – 8 Essential Insights
- NL 8: “In-The-Meantime” Clause – This is One to Remember, and Request
- NL 9: “Need a Work Document from HR? Afraid to Ask? – Here’s How”
- QA 1: “How can I negotiate more equity in a start-up venture?”
- QA 2: “How do I ask a new employer for an equity stake?”
- QA 3: “How do I negotiate an equity position in a new company”
- QA 4: “How does an offer of ‘equity’ from an employer work?”
- QA 5: “How to request ‘ownership interests’ from Private Equity employers.”
- QA 6: “Investing in my employer owned by new Private Equity; any concerns?”
- WD 1: Cashless Exercise – Key Words & Phrases
- WD 2: Good Leaver – Key Words & Phrases
iii. Losing
- NL 1: Hey, it’s May – Time to Update Your Annual “Equity Inventory”
- NL 2: How NOT to Lose Your Workplace Equity
- NL 3: Robbery by Repurchase Rights – A Private Equity Story
- QA 1: “Can a severance agreement require that my husband give up vested stock and stock options?”
- QA 2: “On FMLA. Don’t want to return, but want unvested stock. What can I do?”
- QA 3: “When laid off, can I get my unvested options vested?”
- WD 1: Clawback – Key Words & Phrases
“If you live your life the right way,
your later years will not be a winter,
but rather a harvest.”