Job Events
May you receive more options? What happens to your options after job termination?
Job Events looks at stock options in hiring, salary negotiation, termination, and consulting. This overview page presents selected articles and FAQs from the subtopics in this section. For the full content of a subtopic, click on a link in the upper left.
Articles (Jump to FAQs)
Alisa J. Baker
You may find a gap between what you expect from your equity compensation and what you receive. Often the problem stems from the complexity of the related documents and rules. Learn about them, and understand why you must focus on conflicting or inconsistent provisions.
Alisa J. Baker
NEW! Part 1 looked at the problems of conflicting or inconsistent provisions among different documents. Part 2 discusses which existing documents and rules nonfounder executives must consider when negotiating for equity compensation during the early (pre-public) stages of a company's development and growth.
Mark Miller
For employees and executives, international travel and relocation are increasingly common. Taxation for "mobile employees" is always complex, and never more than with equity compensation. This article explains the key rules in cross-border situations.
Richard Friedman
UPDATED! Get a sense of what you should, and should not, expect in the terms of your stock option grant. This survey of 300 companies in 2007 looks at trends in vesting schedules, post-termination exercise rules, and other plan features (includes some details on restricted stock grants).
Edwin L. Miller, Jr.
Understand what could happen to your stock options or restricted stock in venture capital financings, in an acquisition, or in an IPO. Part 1 looks at M&A deals; Part 2 analyzes IPOs.
Richard Friedman
Your company just gave you a stock option grant, or your existing options are underwater. You wonder: "What are my stock options worth? Are they worth anything at all?" Learn about different valuation methods, including Black-Scholes.
Kathleen Pender
San Francisco Chronicle, 11/25/01
Companies are not required to tell departing employees how many vested options they have and how long they have to exercise them. Along with rules for your other employee benefits, you need to know post-termination option-exercise rules.
Kate Victory
Can't find comparative data on stock option and restricted stock grants? Read the results of surveys, including data on approaches to vesting, exercise, and underwater stock options.
Kate Victory
UPDATED! Finding comparative data on stock option and restricted stock grants is difficult. Here we provide survey data on grant guidelines, expiration provisions, job termination exercise rules, and M&A.
Sandra Block
USA Today, 2/20/01
Whatever route you choose when you're laid off, some tasks can't wait, such as developing a strategy to exercise your stock options.
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FAQs (Jump to articles)
The chances depend mainly on your position, its salary grade, and/or...
If your option was granted with a graded vesting schedule, you are allowed to exercise the vested portion of the option grant, but most commonly you forfeit the remainder...
Yes. You forfeit whatever stock has not vested...
In most instances, stock grants are subject to the same types of...
First, you may be eligible to receive only NQSOs, so read the FAQs on the requirements of ISOs...
Private companies sometimes partly use stock options (NQSOs, not ISOs) or stock grants, along with or instead of cash, to compensate consultants and independent contractors (separate from grants that public and private companies make to nonemployee directors). The terms of these grants can be...
Though this varies from industry to industry and among peer companies, most companies use a combination of...
No law requires this. It is your obligation to know your...
Previously, in some new-hire situations your company might have been more flexible. Now companies try...
Most companies' stock plans focus on the date of termination, meaning the actual...
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