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Compensating Employees with Tokens

Compensating Employees with Tokens

So, your company has generated some tokens (presumably offshore) and you want to use them to compensate employees. Common ways to do so include: Restricted Tokens Tokens can be sold or awarded to employees. Since the employee will generally either need to pay for the...

Section 83(b) Elections and Non-US Persons

Section 83(b) Elections and Non-US Persons

Occasionally a company calls me and asks me about granting a stock award to a service provider in a foreign country.  That can be done, though it often involves drafting an international form of stock award agreement, sometimes involves adopting a sub-plan to be...

Protective Section 83(b) Elections

Protective Section 83(b) Elections

I am frequently asked whether a new tax code Section 83(b) election is necessary when vested stock is subjected to new vesting restrictions. This revesting most often occurs at a financing. The investors request the revesting to ensure that the founders stick around....

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