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Executive Compensation Plans & Agreements
Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) attorneys generally focus on two separate but related areas—employee benefits and executive compensation. We advise corporations, boards of directors, private equity firms, and executives on all legal, design, drafting, negotiation, and compliance aspects of executive compensation matters. We advise corporations, firms, fiduciaries, executives, administrators, governmental entities, and financial institutions on innovative and traditional employee retirement and health and welfare benefits programs. Our substantial experience and over 50 years of involvement in the EBEC field have given us a deep understanding of the evolution of benefits law and the market for executive compensation.
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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
With attorneys based in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Winston’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) team represents a broad range of plan sponsors and offers clients not just deal support but the full suite of employee benefit services. These include public company reporting and executive compensation, employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions, qualified retirement plans and Title I investment advice, health and welfare benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and international human resources matters. And driven by a volatile labor market, we are partnering with clients to innovate plan structure and design, including cutting-edge services such as private exchange medical benefits, employee benefits in captive insurance, and fiduciary governance best practices. With decades of experience, our EBEC team maintains strong brand recognition, with clients describing our attorneys as “superb,” “very client-friendly,” “extremely responsive and able to bring forth the right resources,” and “having an “incredible breadth of knowledge.”
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Our Labor & Employment Practice is one of the largest and most experienced practices among the country’s multi-disciplined law firms. Our attorneys represent global employers of all types and sizes—ranging from the Fortune 100 to privately held startups—often serving as national, regional, or preferred counsel to many of these major employers.
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Experience
|June 8, 2025
Secured, with co-counsel, final approval of an historic settlement of over US$2.75B in back-damages for current and former college-athletes and a new revenue-sharing model allowing schools to share future earnings with athletes. This decade-long effort across four different lawsuits redefines the economics of college sports, affirming athlete rights and fair compensation. Following a 9-0 Supreme Court victory in Alston v. NCAA, the team filed three antitrust class actions, resulting in a groundbreaking settlement that creates a revenue-sharing system projected to generate at least US$20B in new, previously prohibited payments and benefits to Division I college athletes over the next decade. The settlement was recognized in Am Law‘s Litigator of the Week column.
Experience
|August 27, 2021
GenNx360's Majority Investment in Whitsons Culinary Group
Winston & Strawn LLP represented GenNx360 Capital Partners, a New York City-based private equity firm investing in middle market business-to-business industrial and business services companies, in its majority investment in Whitsons Culinary Group, which leads the industry with its customized services, innovative programs, commitment to quality, focus on nutrition, local sourcing, and community support. Its services include school nutrition, residential and healthcare dining, prepared meals, and emergency dining. GenNx360’s operational expertise and track record of building platforms will continue to drive Whitson’s next phase of rapid growth. GenNx360's investment will enable Whitsons to focus on driving their mission of Enhancing Life One Meal at a Time™.
Experience
|January 19, 2021
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.'s Acquisition of Atlas General Insurance Services
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG), a Fortune 500 and an American global insurance brokerage and risk management services company, in connection with its acquisition of San Diego, California-based Atlas General Insurance Services, a multiline program manager and managing general agency offering workers’ compensation, commercial lines, and specialty property programs nationwide.
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Benefits Blast
|October 13, 2025
|3 Min Read
IRS Finalizes Catch-Up Contribution Regulations
401(k) plans may allow employees aged 50 or older to make elective deferrals over the annual limit; these deferrals are known as “catch-up” contributions.
Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|September 25, 2025
|5 Min Read
On September 17, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) released a policy statement (the Policy Statement) addressing its approach to mandatory arbitration provisions in the governing documents of companies intending to go public (each, an Issuer).
Recognitions
|September 24, 2025
|1 Min Read
Winston Featured on the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers List
Winston & Strawn lawyers have been named to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers list. Now in its 19th edition, this guide recognizes the nation’s top advisors across the full spectrum of employment and labor law — from employee benefits and executive compensation to traditional labor matters, immigration, and a wide range of litigation and arbitration, including wage and hour class actions, discrimination, trade secrets, and non-compete disputes.
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Law Glossary
What Is Performance-Based Compensation?
Performance-based compensation (PBC) is a system for rewarding employees financially, outside of their regular salaries. The financial compensation is based on how individual employees, departments, the company, or the company’s stock price performs during a specific time frame and in accordance with pre-determined goals set by the organization. These programs may also be called Pay-For-Performance systems. Companies who utilize these systems must be prepared to define and track performance, as well as provide compensation, such as bonuses, when objectives are met according to benchmarks. The supplemental income will also have tax implications for employees.
Law Glossary
What Is Executive Compensation?
The term executive compensation refers to the financial payments and non-financial benefits provided to the upper level management within a business or organization. Employees who receive this type of compensation are generally presidents or vice-presidents, chief executive, financial, operating, legal, and other C-Suite executives. An executive compensation package is a group of benefits that could include stock awards, severance protection, deferred compensation, and retirement plans. SEC regulations require public companies to disclose the amount their executives are earning, plus how this amount is calculated. Some states also have executive compensation laws.
Law Glossary
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Currently, the Constitution does not guarantee that all the rights it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex. With 24 words, the Equal Rights Amendment would change that. It would provide that “[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.” It would also give Congress the power to enforce that constitutional guarantee by passing legislation.