Every hire starts with a document, and that document decides what happens when things go right and when they go wrong. We draft and negotiate employment contracts, offer letters, separation agreements, and executive compensation packages so the terms are clear, enforceable, and tilted toward protecting your business without scaring off the people you want.
Offer Letters And Agreements
We write offer letters and employment agreements that say exactly what they mean: compensation, benefits, duties, start date, term, and termination. Where at-will employment makes sense, we preserve it instead of accidentally promising job security in the fine print. The result is a document a new employee understands and a court reads the way you intended, with no surprise obligations buried in boilerplate.
Executive Compensation Packages
Senior hires negotiate, and they bring their own counsel. We structure executive compensation around the levers that matter to you: base, bonus targets, equity, vesting, severance triggers, and change-in-control terms. We also build in the restrictive covenants and clawbacks that protect what an executive learns and walks away with, so a key departure does not hand your strategy to a competitor.
Separation And Severance
When an employment relationship ends, the paperwork either closes the door cleanly or leaves it open for a claim. We draft separation and severance agreements with releases that actually release, including the timing and consideration rules that make a waiver of age-discrimination claims stick. We tailor confidentiality, non-disparagement, and return-of-property terms to the situation rather than reusing a generic template.
Why Founders Work With Us
MC Law was founded by former software engineers, so we read agreements the way an IP and technology company needs them read. We think about who owns the code, the inventions, and the trade secrets an employee touches, and we wire assignment and confidentiality terms into the employment contract from day one instead of patching them later. You get agreements built for how technical teams actually work.