Craig is Counsel at Reed Smith LLP, an international law firm with offices in the US, Asia and Europe. He represents multinational companies with equity compensation, executive compensation, employment, and data privacy programs.
In his compensation practice, Craig works with clients in designing, offering, and implementing international equity-based compensation programs, including stock options, stock purchase rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, and stock appreciation rights, as well as salary and cash bonus programs. With regard to these compensation programs, he advises clients on the tax, securities, employment, currency exchange, data privacy, and communications issues that the companies encounter when offering the programs to employees, directors, and consultants throughout the world. Craig also advises clients on cross-border equity compensation issues arising in mergers and acquisitions.
For employment matters, Craig advises companies on all aspects of employment law, including agreements, codes of conduct, benefit entitlements, works councils, lay-offs, and leaves of absence. He also advises companies on the issues they should consider with part-time employees, transferring employees, cross-border employees, contingent workers, and consultants.
In the data privacy area, he advises companies on processing and transferring protected information, complying with local registration requirements, and implementing workplace privacy policies.
