Thomas P. Desmond
Shareholder
T: 312-609-7647
C: 847-778-2268
F: 312-609-5005
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Chicago
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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 also nationally 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 CDW, ConAgra, Delphi, Delta Air Lines, EDS, Fifth Third, First Midwest, Fiserv, GMAC, Hershey, Home Depot, Hyatt, Keebler, Kelloggs, Kraft, LPGA, Mattel, MB Financial, NCI, NYSE/Arca, Orthorfix, PepsiCo, PGA Tour, PrivateBancorp, Rolls-Royce North America, Tellabs, Treehouse Foods and United Airlines.
He has also lectured and written on executive compensation and governance issues, and has been quoted on these matters in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Desmond is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. He is a director of the Chicago Area Foundation for Legal Services, a supporting organization of the Chicago Community Trust, and a former director of a social service agency. He is also active in school and youth sports activities in his home community.
Mr. Desmond was named by his peers in Illinois Super Lawyers and as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois.
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- J.D., Northwestern University, 1981
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B.B.A., cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1978
- Illinois, 1981
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1994
- C.P.A., Illinois, 1979
- Member, The Economic Club of Chicago
- Director, Chicago Area Foundation for Legal Services – a supporting organization of the Chicago Community Trust
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