Interim CEO and Turnaround CEO Employment Agreements: Terms and Compensation

On October 26, 2017, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on  “Interim CEO and Turnaround CEO Employment Agreements: Terms and Compensation.”

This article was designed for executives, who have been offered, are seeking or are now considering taking Interim CEO or Turnaround CEO positions.

The Interim CEO may be one of the following:

  • company insider from the Board or current executive suit or a current consultant to the Company, as Interim CEO, chosen in part for familiarity with the company and essentially to be a placeholder until the new CEO can take up his or her duties
  • executive outside the company recruited to fill that role, someone with a name in the field to maintain the position of the company in the eyes of analysts and investors until the search for a new CEO is completed and the replacement installed
  • an executive hired or recruited not just as a placeholder but as a true Turnaround CEO, who is being brought in to “right the ship” when a company is in turmoil, unprofitable or otherwise not performing to the desired level.


This article discusses the different roles each would play as Interim CEO or Turnaround CEO and the different terms each should seek in employment, compensation, severance,  equity, disclosure and indemnification from the company that needs their services.

To see my full CEOWorld magazine. article, go to LINK:  http://ceoworld.biz/2017/10/26/interim-ceo-and-turnaround-ceo-employment-agreements-terms-and-compensation/

or my website https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/interim-ceo-and-turnaround-ceo-employment-agreements-terms-and-compensation/

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It is my hope that this article will be helpful to senior executives who are navigating the shoals of noncompete, nonsolicitation agreements and going into a new position or change of control.  If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at radelson@engelschultz.com or 617-875-8665.

 

 

Author: Robert Adelson

Robert Adelson has been a corporate and tax attorney since 1977. He began as an associate at nationally prominent New York City “mega” law firms, first at the Wall Street firm Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer & Wood and later at the Park Avenue firm Weil Gotshal & Manges. In 1985, Adelson returned home, where he has since established himself as a respected Boston business attorney. He has attained partner at several small and midsize Boston law firms, most recently at Lawson & Weitzen LLP and then Zimble Brettler LLP, where he was a partner from 1994 to 2004 before becoming a partner at Engel & Schultz LLP from 2004 to 2019. With the breakup of that firm over semi-retirement of senior partners, Robert Adelson formed the firm Adelson & Associates, LLC, where he is the principal, that commenced operations 1/1/2020.