Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C.

Executive Employment Law – Contract Disputes
Change of Control - Non Compete Clauses - Control provisions – Stock Options

Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C. is a leading New York boutique law firm which focuses its practice on providing high-quality counsel and representation to business executives, managers and professionals in a wide variety of employment law and employment contract disputes, including:

• Negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements.
• The enforcement of rights under employment contracts and severance agreements.
• Executive compensation issues, including exercise of stock options and restricted stock grants.
• Non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and restrictive covenants in employment contracts.
• Change of control provisions in executive employment contracts
• Wrongful termination
• Termination for cause disputes
• Breach of contract
• Local, state and federal employment discrimination laws, including sex discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, national origin discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination
• Whistleblower retaliation

The Firm's clients have included senior executives of both publicly traded and privately held companies, including Chief Executive Officers, Chief Operating Officers and Chief Financial Officers. The Firm has also represented partners in leading international law and accounting firms, senior managers and professionals at United States and foreign banks and financial institutions, academics at some of the country's leading universities and educational institutions and leading doctors and executives of major New York-area hospitals.

The Manhattan Firm serves clients primarily in New York New Jersey and Connecticut. The Firm will handle large cases nationwide.

Successful cases

• The Firm represented the former head of the mortgage division of a major regional bank in an employment contract dispute asserting a claim under a severance agreement to a share of the division's revenues following the sale of the division. We commenced a lawsuit in federal court and obtained summary judgment against the bank requiring it to pay the entire revenue share due to the executive.
• The Firm won a jury verdict of $1.5 million in damages for a Bangladesh-born physician who was denied admittance to the residency training program of Brooklyn-Caledonian Hospital because of his national origin.
• The Firm successfully negotiated a $700,000 out-of-court settlement for a senior attorney at a major New York City law firm who was sexually harassed by one of the firm's senior partners.
• The Firm obtained an $800,000 settlement for the general counsel of an international media company in an employment contract dispute to enforce the terms of his contract.
• The Firm successfully represented the CEO of a leading international research and consulting firm in litigation to enforce the severance provisions of his employment contract.
• The Firm successfully represented the former Head of Derivatives Sales at one of the world's largest banks in a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit.
• The Firm obtained a $450,000 settlement on behalf of a registered nurse in a disability discrimination case against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
• The Firm successfully represented the Chief Technology Officer of a leading international financial software company in employment contract dispute arbitration to enforce the severance provisions of his employment contract after his position was significantly diminished as the result of a corporate merger.

Contact the executive employment law and employment contract dispute attorneys at Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C.

Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C.
20 Exchange Place
New York, NY 10005
Telephone: (212) 338-9100
Fax: (212) 338-9088
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