CAP has extensive experience working with private companies, from smaller family-owned businesses to significantly larger enterprises. We help private-companies address unique compensation challenges – not the least of which is finding appropriate benchmarking data. To help fill this data gap, CAP conducts original surveys of private-company compensation levels and practices. Other challenging compensation issues that CAP helps private companies navigate include:

• The design of a compensation program that is competitive with publicly traded peers;
• The choice between cash long-term incentives, and real or phantom equity;
• If real or phantom equity is provided, how to value it, and how to provide liquidity;
• The balance between keeping sensitive financial information private and providing management with line of sight;
• The retention of ownership control while creating a succession plan and fostering an ownership culture; and
• The amount of profit and/or ownership that the company shares with management and employees.

Learn more about CAP’s private-company expertise here or contact us for additional information.