Can consultants or independent contractors be granted stock options or company stock? How common is this practice?

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...

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