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Ed has more than 20 years of experience in employee-benefit and executive-compensation matters. He has helped both emerging and publicly held companies to design, establish and administer employee stock-purchase plans, stock options, 401(k) plans, ESOPs and other employee benefit plans governed by ERISA. He counsels ERISA fiduciaries on their duties in various benefit-plan transactions.Ed also works closely with emerging and publicly held companies and individual executives to establish executive-compensation and nonqualified executive benefits, including stock options and restricted stock, deferred compensation, and excess-benefit plans. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating executive-employment and change-in-control agreements, and in advising companies on the various tax and securities issues involved in such agreements.Ed has substantial experience in negotiating issues that arise under ERISA employee-benefit plans and executive-compensation arrangements in connection with the sale or acquisition of a company, including both asset and stock sales and acquisition contracts.Ed’s professional memberships include the Minnesota State Bar Association (Employee Benefits Section); the American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section); and the ESOP Association. He is a frequent speaker and seminar presenter on employee-benefit and executive-compensation topics. His publications include, as a contributing author, The Employer’s Guide to Employment Law in Minnesota, a joint publication of Lindquist & Vennum and the Minnesota Small Business Assistance Office. | 