MARSHALL SCOTT
Senior Counsel

Marshall Scott is an attorney in Croke Fairchild’s Employment and Labor Practice.

Marshall advises public companies, as well as family enterprises and privately held businesses, on all aspects of executive compensation and governance. His experience in the retail sector, which has featured shoe manufacturing and shoe retail public companies, includes the provisions of consulting or legal advice to Kohl’s, Meijer, Big Lots, Wolverine World Wide, SpartanNash Companies, and Sportmart.

Marshall’s legal counsel includes advising clients on federal and state taxation related to compensation and benefits; compliance with federal and state securities law (the registration of compensation programs and related equity) and securities law disclosure; and the preparation of public disclosure filing narratives related to executive compensation consequences of merger and acquisition transactions.

Marshall assists clients with the design, drafting, and adoption of annual and long-term equity incentive plan documents and qualified and non-qualified retirement and savings plans. He also provides support for negotiations related to senior executive employment contracts.

Prior to joining Croke Fairchild, Marshall led the executive compensation and employee benefits practice at Katten Much and Rosenman.

In addition to his legal practice, Marshall has significant experience as a lead consultant for executive compensation and human resources firm Willis Towers Watson. In this role, he advises clients on benchmarking practices, selecting survey resources and identifying proxy peer group members, and analyzing and presenting data collected from these cohorts. Marshall also develops compensation philosophies, designs and implements compensation programs, advises on market benchmarking, selects performance metrics, and prepares communication materials for boards of director presentations and employee and investor/SEC communications.