Private Companies

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.

Tax-Exempt Organizations

Nonprofits have the challenge of recruiting and retaining talent critical to their missions while competing for this talent with for-profit firms. In addition, nonprofits are subject to specific tax regulations. As such, they need to maintain the “rebuttable presumption of reasonableness” and avoid intermediate sanctions. CAP can help evaluate cash compensation and benefit programs for a nonprofit’s executives and/or the entire employee population. CAP works with management and boards to structure compensation programs that are meaningful, affordable, and enable not-for-profit organizations to fulfill their mission.

Learn more about CAP’s nonprofit expertise here or contact us for additional information.