Synopsis
This is the definitive guide for anyone involved with designing, implementing, or administering an employee stock option plan. Written by attorney Alisa Baker, a leading equity compensation expert, it presents a straightforward, comprehensive overview of both the big-picture issues and the technical details related to designing and implementing stock option plans. The book also looks at "hot" issues and provides illustrative exhibits, a glossary, a bibliography, and primary source materials, plus a seminal article by Corey Rosen on plan design. The ninth edition covers the latest developments in the equity compensation field, including a chapter devoted entirely to the stock options backdating scandal.
About the Author
Alisa J. Baker, a partner at Levine & Baker LLP in San Francisco, is a nationally recognized equity compensation expert who specializes in counseling individuals and companies on the full range of compensation-related matters, including: preparation and negotiation of executive employment agreements, severance/separation agreements, consulting agreements, and individual equity arrangements, including representation of partners and company founders; representation of senior executives, company founders, and employee-stockholders on their rights in merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions and venture capital financings, including golden parachute, deferred compensation, and equity structuring matters; design, implementation, and counseling on all aspects of employee compensation, including stock plans, non-equity performance plans, qualified/nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, executive compensation assessment, and compensation committee review procedures; and expert witness and consulting services for equity-related litigation. Alisa is the author of two books on equity compensation: The Stock Options Book (9th ed., 2008), a comprehensive overview (now used as the core text for the Santa Clara University/Certified Equity Professional Institute [CEPI] credentialing program), and The Law of Equity Compensation, coauthored with Corey Rosen (2006), a treatise on equity compensation-related litigation from 2001 to 2005. In addition, her extensive list of published articles includes pieces in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the Journal of Taxation. Alisa s speaking engagements include many appearances before industry groups, including the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), the E-Trade Business Solutions Group, and the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). She is a founding member of the CEPI Board of Advisors and currently serves on the MyStockOptions Board of Advisors and the NCEO Stock Option Advisory Board. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance. Alisa received her B.A. and M.A. in English with honors, and her M.S. in higher education with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She earned her J.D. with honors from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she was an associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She has been a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School and an adjunct lecturer in executive compensation at Golden Gate University.
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