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Loran Thompson is an employee benefits and executive compensation partner in the firm's New York office.
Mr. Thompson’s executive compensation practice includes the design and implementation of stock option and other equity-based and performance award plans, as well as deferred compensation and other executive programs. He routinely represents clients in the negotiation and drafting of senior executive employment agreements and severance agreements, and provides tax advice on deferred compensation, golden parachutes, and $1 million executive compensation deductibility limit issues, among other areas.
The employee benefits and ERISA part of his practice includes counseling on plan design and regulatory compliance matters, preparing plan documents, and offering support to in-house benefits personnel in connection with the administration of retirement plans and other broad-based employee benefit programs. He frequently provides assistance with the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of acquisition and divestiture transactions, including the design and implementation of post-acquisition benefits.
Mr. Thompson has served as co-chair of the Committee on Nonqualified Benefits (1991-1995) and the Committee on Qualified Plans (1995-1998) of the New York State Bar Association’s Tax Section. In those capacities, he played an active role in the preparation of reports that helped shape federal tax policy in such areas as nondiscrimination requirements, the handling of qualified plans in merger and acquisition transactions, separate lines of business rules, executive compensation deductibility limitations and the employment tax treatment of deferred compensation arrangements.
Activities
Mr. Thompson is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York State Bar Association.
Education
Mr. Thompson received a B.A. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, from Amherst College in 1969 and an M.A. from Harvard University in 1970. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976.
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