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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Offices

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
2710 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
California, 94025
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Brandon Gantus

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+1 650 618 9250 brandon.gantus@freshfields.com View profile

Work Department

Employee benefits/Executive compensation

Position

Partner

Career

Brandon’s practice focuses on the representation of companies in their compensation and employee benefits matters, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.  He regularly advises clients on the design, drafting, and administration of equity-based compensation programs (including stock option, restricted stock, and other equity arrangements); employment, consulting, retention, severance, change in control, and deferred compensation arrangements; and the associated tax (including Section 409A), accounting, ERISA, and securities law implications. He also assists public and private companies with corporate governance and compliance matters, including compensation disclosures for proxy filings and other applicable securities filings, as well as employee communications and public announcements.

Memberships

  • Speaker, “Through the Accounting Lens: Clawbacks, ESG and Discretion,” The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, October 2021.
  • Co-author, “Legal Framework and Considerations for Implementing and Enforcing Clawbacks,” Journal of Pension Benefits, Autumn 2020.
  • Co-author, “Clawbacks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Trends,” The Corporate Governance Advisor, March/April 2021.
  • Speaker, “Compensation Confidential,” LaunchBio, January 2021 & May 2021.
  • Speaker, “CEO Pay Ratio and More,” The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, San Francisco Chapter, February 2017.
  • Speaker, “How Public and Private Companies Should Prepare for the Requirements of the SEC’s Clawback Rules,” The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, San Francisco Chapter, August 2015.

Education

  • LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 2008, With Distinction; Recipient, Employee Benefits Certificate
  • J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 2006
  • B.A., Political Science, Boston College, 2001

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is recognized for its ‘excellent executive compensation practice’, advising on equity arrangements, executive employment, severance agreements, golden parachute taxes, and other aspects of employee benefits and executive compensations in transactions. The practice is co-led by Nicole Foster and Lori Goodman in New York, alongside Brandon Gantus and Sarah Ghulamhussain in Silicon Valley. Foster collaborates with the firm’s European and Asian offices to deliver cross-border executive compensation advice, while Goodman provides US benefits law guidance to international clients such as Roivant Sciences, AstraZeneca, and Ericsson. Gantus’s expertise lies in M&A and capital markets transactions, which is routinely called upon by technology and life sciences companies. Ghulamhussain, who became a partner in May 2023, specializes in compensation structuring for corporate changes, C-suite executive transitions, and succession planning. Jordan Salzman, who rejoined the New York office as counsel in September 2023, advises public companies, private equity funds, and executives.

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