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Adam Faber has extensive experience in counseling and advising employers and employees regarding employment, benefits and corporate related matters. This includes the negotiation and drafting of employment contracts and severance agreements as well as deferred compensation, stock option, restricted stock and other incentive compensation plans and agreements.

Within the field of employee benefits, Mr. Faber counsels companies and individuals regarding retirement and health and welfare plans in connection with qualification requirements, fiduciary standards and benefit planning alternatives under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Mr. Faber has represented clients before the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service.

On deferred compensation matters, Mr. Faber guides corporate entities and senior executives through the impact of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (409A) on existing deferred compensation arrangements and advises on the implementation of newly created plans and agreements.

In addition, Mr. Faber has significant experience in corporate transactions. He negotiates and drafts provisions of purchase and sale agreements, loan agreements and bankruptcy related documents.

Mr. Faber practiced for eight years in the Employment and Employee Benefits Group of the New York City law firm, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. At Schulte Roth, Mr. Faber was the point person on executive compensation and employee benefits matters for the firm’s clients on mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Mr. Faber lectures each year at the Practicing Law Institute ERISA Conferences and lectures at the Hofstra University School of Law on Executive Compensation. Read more>>

Eric Eubanks is a partner at Faber Eubanks LLC. As an experienced employment and executive compensation attorney, Eric regularly advises executives, management and employees in the negotiation of their employment, consulting or separation agreements which often involve complex forms of equity compensation, bonuses, performance incentives (for example, carried/profits interests), deferred compensation as well as restrictive covenants (non-competition and non-solicitation).

Eric also represents management teams, employees, founders and partners in employment related agreements during a purchase/sale, merger and acquisition (change in control) and other corporate transactions.

Often a client’s specific industry has unique qualities which dictates the form of compensation they may receive. Eric’s recent clients have worked in the financial services industry (hedge funds, investment banks, private equity etc..), technology, media, entertainment, fashion, sports, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, automotive, advertising, publishing and many others.

In addition, Eric has extensive employment litigation experience representing clients in State and Federal Court as well as arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, JAMS and FINRA. Recent litigation matters have included employment compensation disputes/breach of contract claims, bonus claims, “Cause” termination issues, partnership disputes and issues arising from restrictive covenants (non-competition and non-solicitation).

Mr. Eubanks was named by Super Lawyers Magazine to its 2014 New York Metro Rising Star list, an honor reserved for no more than two and one-half percent of the lawyers in the New York Metro area.

Prior to joining Faber Eubanks LLC, Mr. Eubanks was a senior associate attorney at a New York law firm specializing in complex contract, shareholder and partnership matters.

While in Law School, Mr. Eubanks was an intern for the Honorable Prudence Carter Beatty, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.