SCOTT SPECTOR, Mergers and Acquisitions, Equity Compensation Arrangements, Employment Contract Negotiations, Nonqualified Deferred Compensation, Corporate Governance : Fenwick & West LLP

SCOTT P. SPECTOR

Emphasis

		Mergers and Acquisitions
		Equity Compensation Arrangements
		Employment Contract Negotiations
		Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
		Corporate Governance

Profile

Mr. Spector's practice emphasizes the compensation issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters involving executive compensation. He also specializes in serving high technology and software clients in designing and implementing executive compensation, equity compensation and other employee benefit arrangements. He is an expert on Section 409 A and 280 G matters. Mr. Spector also represents numerous chief executive officers of technology in contract negotiation.

Education

New York University School of Law, LL.M., in taxation, 1975

Tulane University, J.D., 1974

Tulane University, B.A., 1971

Admitted to Practice

Member of the state bars of California, New York and Illinois.

Additional Information

He is the former Chair of the Subcommittee on Executive Compensation of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Subcommittee on the Federal Securities Regulation of the Committee on Employee Benefits of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Spector is a member of the Practising Law Institute Board of Advisors. He co-chairs the ALI/ABA annual program on executive compensation. He is a frequent speaker at national compensation, governance, and securities law programs, and has written extensively, on executive compensation, corporate governance and stock compensation matters. He was named to The Best Lawyers in America 2011 in the area of Employee Benefits Law and recognized by Chambers USA as one of the top Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation lawyers in California.

Representative Clients

		Agilent Technologies, Inc.
		Barclays Global Investors
		Cisco Systems, Inc.
		Intuit Inc.
		Symantec Corporation
		Synopsys, Inc.
		Virgin America Inc.

SCOTT P. SPECTOR

Partner,
Corporate Group

Chair,
Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group

P: 650.335.7251
F: 650.938.5200

sspector@fenwick.com

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