John Winthrop
Partner
John Winthrop is founding Partner of Winthrop Law. John's practice focuses primarily in the commercial, executive compensation, tax and corporate securities laws, and corporate governance areas.
John advises both publicly traded and privately held companies as well as individual clients. He negotiates, prepares and reviews equity compensation and change of control plans/agreements, Rule 10b5-1 trading plans along with proxy statements, prospectuses, and other filings required by the 1933/1934 Securities Acts and the national stock exchanges. This includes advising on tax laws, such as Internal Revenue Code Sections 162(m), 280G, 409A governing compensation deduction limitations, golden parachutes, and nonqualified deferred compensation, respectively, and on federal/state securities laws including reporting, disclosure and registration requirements.
Mark also counsels executive management and boards on executive compensation and benefits issues arising in the context of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, initial public offerings, and other significant corporate transactions.
John regularly represents senior level executives and companies in employment and separation agreement matters and management teams in charge of control transactions. He writes and speaks extensively on executive compensation related issues.
Mark has created and developed numerous quantitative models to analyze, among other things, golden parachutes, personal aircraft use and other executive compensation arrangements. His experience also includes working in corporate business development where he participated in creating business plans, private placement offerings, deal structuring and in developing several high-tech international start-up initiatives.
John has a B.A. from Lehigh University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. John is licensed to practice in Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Michigan.
Mark Schwartz
Partner
Mark is a Partner at Winthrop Law. He joined from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he was a partner in the Corporate Commercial Practice Group.
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Mark's practice focuses on private equity, M&A and joint ventures in the financial services, aviation, insurance, energy, utilities, technology and software, transport, logistics, consumer goods, retail, education, healthcare, telecoms and media sectors.
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Mark is well known for the time and attention he devotes to transactions and his sensible approach to negotiating, he is recognized by the market as one of the region's leading corporate transactional lawyers and is personally ranked in the leading legal research directories for his work.
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Mark has a B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and J.D. from University of Pennsylvania and LLB from University of London. Mark is licensed to practice in New York, Delaware, Texas and United Kingdom.