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Greg focuses his practice on executive compensation and employee benefits matters for publicly traded and privately held companies and nonprofit organizations. He has extensive experience assisting business owners with their succession planning needs through the implementation of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

The IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2008-13 to clarify what constitutes “performance-based” compensation under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m).  This classification is important because Code Section 162(m) generally prohibits public companies from deducting compensation in excess of $1 million to the CEO and certain named executive officers.  If the compensation is performance-based, however, this deduction limitation