The Complete Guide to Employee Stock Options : Everything the Executive and Employee Need to Know about Equity Compensation Plans Book

Acknowledgments

1. Why Equity Incentives for Private Companies?
2. Common Mistakes and an Almost Ideal Private Company Plan
3. Introduction to Stock Option Plans
4. ISOs Versus Non-ISOs
5. Designing an Exit Event Option Plan
6. Who Should Receive a Stock Option and How Often?
7. Analysis of a Private Company Exit Event Option Plan
8. Other Important Option Plan Provisions
9. Explaining Exit Event Stock Options to Existing Employees and New Hires
10. What an Employee Should Know About His or Her Stock Options
11. Developing an Ownership Culture
12. Vesting Options
13. Option Duration and Exercising Options
14. Transferable Stock Options and Underwater Stock Options
15. Limited Liability Companies and Limited Partnerships
16. Accounting for Stock Options
17. Stock Option Securities Law Issues
18. Stock Bonus Plans
19. Phantom Stock Plans
20. Employee Stock Purchase Plans

Appendixes

1. Private Company [Sale or IPO Exit]: ABC, Inc. 2001 Stock Option Plan
2. Private Company [Sale Only Exit]: m, Inc. 2001 Stock Option Plan
3. Shareholders' Agreement
4. QRX, Inc. Stock Option Plan 5. Public Company [Time Vested]: GHI, Inc. 2002 Stock Option Plan
6. Sections 421 Through 424 of the Internal Revenue Cod
e 7. Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) Private Letter Ruling Issue: July 19, 1996, April 24, 1996
8. All Professional Personnel Accounting for Certain Transactions Involving Stock Compensation
9. Limited Liability Company Agreement of XYZ Company LLC (A Delaware Limited Liability Company) Dated As of February 1, 2001
10. Section 83(b) Election
11. UVW, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
12. DEF, Inc. Phantom Stock Appreciation Rights Plan

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