June 2025 Executive Employment Law Newsletter
- Robert Adelson
- Jun 11
- 5 min read
I hope this email finds you and your family in good health. We are now beginning June, we’ve had some nice weather and hopefully this run of nice weather will continue, ideal for biking, hiking, boating, golf, picnics and enjoying the out of doors, and perhaps some swimming too in the lakes and by month end perhaps the ocean too. As for New England spectator sports, perhaps the less said the better. Our winter sports teams have long since finished: the Bruins did not make the playoffs; our defending NBA Champion Celtics dashed our hopes as the team crashed and burned losing to the Knicks in 6 games in the second round. To make things even worse, star Jason Tatum suffered serious injury and we can only wish him well and a recovery such that at some future date he might again step on the parquet and resume what has been an exceptional career. As for our main remaining pro team still standing, the Red Sox are in a bit of a funk. I attended one game, rescheduled the next day after a rainout, where the Sox scored 19 runs (“Mercy!” I can almost hear those immortal words in my ear from Old Sox radio announcer Ned Martin). Yet, so many other games when the Sox get some decent pitching from Crochet or others, they just cannot summon the timely hitting. Hopefully, Alex Cora will get everyone on the same page and things will improve as the season continues on.
As for Newsletter items, this past week, there has been a delay with my latest article so I am reposting an article of mine that CEOWORLD published in 2023 for CEOs, C-level and senior executives on acceleration terms in a change of control event. A link is offered to my article where I argue for immediate acceleration on the closing of the success event and against delay from a “Double Trigger” with my argument drawing on 19th century US history analogies. (Hint: I’m on the side of Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates). As a bonus, I include a further link to the article’s sequel also published in CEOWORLD arguing for the single trigger in public companies.
This newsletter also has links, in items #3 and #4, to two other earlier articles of mine. The first article, published in 2023 in IVYEXEC, the career advancement website, advises on negotiation strategies and terms to seek in C-level and senior executive severance negotiations. The second article, published in CEOWORLD magazine back in 2020 but still relevant, offers pointers to first time CEOs and those new to C-level executive employment negotiations, including key terms to seek in your negotiations. There is also a special offer as item #5, an Executive Employment Separation Law Diagnostic. I hope some of these items might be of benefit… and my best wishes to all for the rest of June!
1. Fighting the CofC “Double Trigger” as Free Labor vs Slavery
Are you being hired, or are you now working as a CEO or C-level executive to lead or help lead your company to a liquidity Change of Control success event? Your job offer likely provides for acceleration or some bonus compensation if you succeed, but what about the actual triggers for your payout? My article published in CEOWORLD magazine in 2023 argues for a single trigger of your acceleration on closing and against the Double Trigger that sets more conditions and various risks and potential problems for you. Read the Article Here After challenge from a company attorney, I demonstrated use of the single trigger for C-level executives in public companies (and got my public company CEO client the single trigger), as set out in my sequel to this article CEOWORLD magazine in 2024, for single trigger executive acceleration in public companies. Read the Article Here
2. Work with CEOs, C-Suite and Senior Executives, exclusively.
Robert Adelson is an attorney specialized in the representation of CEOs, C-level and senior executives. He no longer represents companies or employers. Learn about Robert Adelson’s work with CEOs, C-level and senior executives to advise on and improve job offers, employment contracts, stock, RSUs, options, bonuses and other executive compensation matters, plus advice and aid on issues of wrongful termination, severance, exit terms, retention, change of control, other executive issues and more … More Details Here
3. Severance Compensation Packages for Executives
Whether you have just received a job offer, have a chance to renegotiate your current contract, or are facing a change of control or termination situation, my article published in January 2023 by the IvyExec career advancement website may benefit you, as I discuss key payment, equity, benefits, non-disparagement and other terms to negotiate in your severance package and also timing, and how to deal with what your employer may ask of you. Read the Article Here
4. Negotiating your first C-Level Executive Employment Agreement
Are you a newly-minted CEO or another C-level executive? Did you receive your first C-level job offer or employment agreement? My article published in CEOWORLD Magazine back in 2020 remains relevant and may benefit you, as I discuss why the agreement is important to the company and to you, and key terms – equity, bonus structure, severance among them – on which to focus in your negotiations. Read the Article Here
5. 6/2025 Offer: Good until June 30th
This 4-week value-packed offer, is as a way to get introduced to my law work: an Executive Employment Separation Law Diagnostic –– this offer is good through 6/30/25. More Details Here
It’s always a pleasure to get back in touch with you and other clients, friends, and colleagues. I hope the links and information provided will be useful to you and that there will be an opportunity for me to work with you on legal matters in the near future.
Let’s keep in touch!
Best regards,
Rob
Robert Adelson
*Adelson & Associates, LLC
Executive Employment Attorney
101 Federal Street, 19th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 204-5601 Law Firm
(617) 204-5602 Direct
(617) 204-5604 Fax
E-mail : rob@attorneyadelson.com
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Website: www.executiveemploymentattorney.com
Note on Adelson & Associates, LLC:
* Robert A. Adelson is the Principal of Adelson & Associates, LLC. For fifteen (15) years, from October 2004 through December 2019, Robert Adelson practiced law and referred legal work to associates of his, trusted and experienced colleagues, as a partner of Engel & Schultz, LLP. In December 2019, the lead partners of the firm announced they would go into semi-retirement, go their separate ways, and the office lease would expire in January 2020. In response, Robert Adelson formed Adelson & Associates, LLC in December 2019 and commenced the new firm’s operations on January 1, 2020, with the new firm taking over, on that date and going forward, all current Robert Adelson clients, matters and operations, as well as all referral of legal work to associates of Robert Adelson. Since 1/1/2020, the firm’s offices have been and remain at 101 Federal Street, 19th Floor, across the street from the pre-2020 offices at One Federal Street, 21st Floor, in Boston’s Financial District.
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