Daniel C. Hagen (Dan)
Partner
Cleveland
Tel: 1.216.586.7159
Fax: 1.216.579.0212
Email:
dchagen@jonesday.com
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Dan Hagen is co-chair of the Firm's employee benefits & executive compensation practice. He advises Jones Day clients on all aspects of their executive compensation and employee benefits programs. He provides balanced judgment and technical guidance on the most difficult business and legal issues that employers face in designing and running their benefits and compensation programs and in managing those programs through business and regulatory change.
Dan has especially deep experience in executive compensation and merger and acquisition matters. In the executive compensation area, he has handled the negotiation and preparation of CEO and other executive officer level employment agreements and severance arrangements, supplemental deferred compensation and retirement plans and stock option, restricted stock, and other equity and cash-based long-term incentive programs. He also has advised management teams and boards of directors on change in control severance arrangements for executive management employees.
In the merger and acquisition area, Dan routinely handles the benefits and compensation issues that arise when businesses are formed, bought, or sold, having been involved in hundreds of such transactions during his Jones Day career. His experience in deal work covers the spectrum of business transactions: public company mergers, tender offers, sales of large divisions, private equity fund leverage buyouts, and joint ventures. He also has assisted purchasers in integrating compensation and benefit programs following significant acquisitions.
Dan also has had considerable involvement in the personnel and employee benefits aspects of professional sports law. He has dealt with leaguewide employee benefit plans in the context of professional sports franchise acquisitions, and he has handled the negotiation and renegotiation of player contracts on behalf of a National Basketball Association team.
Dan is listed in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in employee benefits law and has been recognized in Chambers as one of the leading lawyers in employee benefits. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Tax and Business Law Sections).
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Ohio
Education
Baldwin-Wallace College (B.A. summa cum laude 1977); University of Virginia (Law Review; Order of the Coif; J.D. 1980)