Max Seltzer is a partner in the firm’s Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits and Taxation Group. Mr. Seltzer has been practicing in the executive compensation, employee benefits and corporate tax area for more than 25 years. Mr. Seltzer counsels regional and national clients in all aspects of executive compensation, including tax, securities and accounting. His practice also focuses on the many tax and benefit issues surrounding mergers and acquisitions, including the impact of Code Sections 280G and 409A. He has extensive experience in designing and drafting employment and change in control agreements, consulting and separation agreements, long-term equity and non-equity incentive plans, supplemental executive retirement plans, employee stock ownership plans and analyzing the impact of the golden parachute rules of Code Section 280G. Mr. Seltzer also counsels public companies on SEC reporting requirements related to all aspects of compensation.
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Representative Transactions:
- Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. and Brookline Bancorp, Inc., Boston, MA, in its $1.1 billion merger of equals.
- Hometown Financial Group, Inc., Easthampton, MA, in its $146.5 million acquisition of Randolph Bancorp, Inc.
- Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., Oak Ridge, NJ, in its $1.3 billion merger with Provident Financial Services, Inc.
- PCSB Financial Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY, in its $313 million merger with Brookline Bancorp, Inc.
- Meridian Bancorp, Inc. in its conversion from a mutual holding company to stock holding company and concurrent $325.0 million public offering of common stock.