Areas of Concentration
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Tax
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
Bruce has significant experience advising on the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financing transactions and IPOs, both domestically and internationally. He designs and drafts equity, incentive, retention, severance and change-of-control programs, including global equity incentive plans. Bruce represents public and private clients on both ongoing business and strategic transactions with regard to executive compensation and employee benefits matters. He advises clients on compliance with tax and securities laws, ERISA, exchange listing rules, appropriate disclosure and the structuring of investments by pension plans in light of the “plan asset” rules. Bruce also negotiates employment and separation agreements and other management compensation programs, with particular expertise in private equity.
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Professional Activities
- Law Clerk, The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (N.J.), 1996-1997