Thomas P. Desmond
Shareholder
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Co-Chair, Executive Compensation Practice Group
Thomas P. Desmond is Co-Chairman of the Executive Compensation practice group and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Desmond served on the firm’s Executive Committee from 1994 to 2003 and was Chairman of the firm’s Corporate practice area from 1991 to 1994.
Mr. Desmond’s practice includes advising corporations and financial institutions with respect to executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and governance matters. His corporate engagements have included acting as advisor to boards of directors and to compensation, audit, governance and other special committees of boards of directors of public and privately held corporations.
Mr. Desmond is known for his representation of corporations, compensation committees and executives with respect to employment, retirement and separation arrangements affecting senior executives, incentive compensation programs and related regulatory and disclosure requirements. His assignments in this area have included employment arrangements, compensation plans and regulatory and disclosure matters relating to numerous organizations, including Calamos Investments, CDW, Columbia Wagner Asset Management, ConAgra, Delphi, Delta Air Lines, Dimensional Fund Advisors, DIRECTV, EDS, Fifth Third, First Midwest, Fiserv, Harris Associates, Hershey, Hyatt, ING, Keebler, LPGA, Mattel, MB Financial, NCI, NYSE/Arca, Orthofix, PepsiCo, PGA Tour, PrivateBancorp, Rolls-Royce North America, Solera Holdings, Sony Music, Swiss Re, Tellabs and Treehouse Foods.
He has also spoken and written on executive compensation and governance issues and has been quoted on these matters in theWall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
In 2011, Mr. Desmond was ranked in Chambers USA in the Illinois Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Compensation category. In addition, Mr. Desmond received an "AV Preeminent" Peer Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Desmond was selected for inclusion from 2005 to 2012 in Illinois Super Lawyers. He is also a Leading Lawyer in Illinois.
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- J.D., Northwestern University, 1981
- Certified Public Accountant, 1979
- B.B.A., cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1978
- Illinois, 1981
- US Supreme Court, 1994
- Member, The Economic Club of Chicago
- Member, President's Advisory Council, Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School
- Former Director, Chicago Area Foundation for Legal Services – a supporting organization of the Chicago Community Trust
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