Alex's practice focuses on assisting clients with navigating the complex rules and regulations involved in employment and executive compensation matters. Alex represents clients in the negotiation and design of employment, consulting, severance, and non-competition agreements. He also advises clients in the structuring of compensation packages, including severance, change in control, deferred compensation, and equity compensation. Alex's experience also includes advising clients and management teams on the employment and executive compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Mintz, Alex was an associate at another law firm focusing on executive compensation and SEC disclosures related to compensation.
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Dodd-Frank and Executive Compensation - Part 1: Status Update
April 28, 2016 | Blog | By Alexander Song
It’s been over five years since the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act (“Dodd-Frank”) and we are still waiting for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to finalize rules on several provisions related to executive compensation. Below is a summary of the current landscape of Dodd-Frank as it relates to key executive compensation provisions.
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New York State Enacts Nation’s Most Generous Paid Family Leave Law Effective January 1, 2018
April 19, 2016 | Blog | By Alexander Song
Earlier this month Governor Cuomo signed into law New York’s Paid Family Leave Act, which, when fully implemented, will provide virtually all employees in the state up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.
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News & Press
Mintz is pleased to announce that 120 firm attorneys have been recognized as leaders by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Mintz Leads For Lido Advisors In Its Partnership With Colorado Financial Management
January 17, 2023
BOSTON – Mintz has served as legal counsel to wealth-management firm Lido Advisors LLC, a Charlesbank Capital Partners portfolio company, in its partnership with Colorado Financial Management (CFM).
Mintz Leads On A Quartet of Back-To-Back Private Equity Closings
October 25, 2022
Mintz attorneys in Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, closed four Private Equity transactions in the past month. Along with acquisitions for Charlesbank Capital Partners, DIF Capital Partners portfolio company Joink LLC, and Artemis Capital Partners, the firm represented the CEO and some managers of Salary.com in the sale of most of the company’s equity interests to Accel-KKR.
Mintz Advises Cybersecurity Firm Edgile in Sale to Wipro
January 12, 2022
Mintz Promotes Nine to Member
December 15, 2021
Enacted on December 22, 2017, the 2017 tax act (Pub. L. No. 115-97, §13602(a)) added §4960 to the Internal Revenue Code. This new section imposes an excise tax on the amount of ‘‘remuneration’’ in excess of $1 million, plus any ‘‘excess parachute payment’’ paid by an ‘‘applicable tax-exempt organization’’ to a ‘‘covered employee.’’ The Chair of Mintz’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice, Alden J. Bianchi, and associate Alexander K. Song, explore §4960 in this article, and conclude that from the perspective of the board or management of an ATEO, there is a lot not to like in §4960 and the IRS’s interpretation of the statute in the Notice.
Mintz Represents Seventh Generation, Inc. in Sale to Unilever
October 27, 2016
Mintz attorneys represented Seventh Generation, Inc. in its recent sale to Unilever. Based in Vermont, Seventh Generation is a pioneer in corporate responsibility and sustainable product innovations, including plant-based detergents and household cleaners.
Recognition & Awards
Featured in Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch, Employment Law (2024)
Recent Insights
Mintz is pleased to announce that 120 firm attorneys have been recognized as leaders by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
BOSTON – Mintz has served as legal counsel to wealth-management firm Lido Advisors LLC, a Charlesbank Capital Partners portfolio company, in its partnership with Colorado Financial Management (CFM).
Mintz attorneys in Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, closed four Private Equity transactions in the past month. Along with acquisitions for Charlesbank Capital Partners, DIF Capital Partners portfolio company Joink LLC, and Artemis Capital Partners, the firm represented the CEO and some managers of Salary.com in the sale of most of the company’s equity interests to Accel-KKR.
