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Support Our customer experience team is here around the clock - real people ready to assist. Join Now Sign In. Popular Forums Special Interest Groups Deals General Discussion FatWallet News. What happens to stock options if the issuing company is sold? I know that this is a matter of negotiation, but I'm looking for some first-hard experience or general guidelines regarding what happens to stock options when the issuing company is acquired. What happens to the options if the company never makes an IPO, but gets acquired before then? Does it matter if I have or haven't exercised them at that point? What happens if the company gets acquired after IPO, and does it matter if I have or haven't exercised sold options at that time? Like I said, I know this depends on a lot of things and is determined on a case by case basis, but hopefully there are come general trends or common experiences people can share. Quick Summary is created and edited by sold like you Add FAQ's, Links and other Relevant Information by clicking the edit button in the lower right hand corner of this message. Click to copy code and go to. Thanks for stock FatWallet. Options for free to remove this ad. My only experience is when my employer, a public company, was company by private equity firms and went private. All stock options vested at the time the deal closed, and all above-water stock options were automatically exercised and sold at the buyout price. Well the options are a legal contract between you and the company, so the new owners still have to honor them -- although they might pressure you to reneogitiate them. Is this an incentive stock option or a listed option? Well, with the incentive stock options, it would matter if vested or not. If vested, you can do whatever you want with that. Exercise and immediately get shares, etc. Since those represent rights on ownership of the company, the buyer should honor them. Also, a lot would matter how the management of the company being bought negotiates. They can dilute, allow early vesting, etc. If the options are not vested, it is not clear what would happen. The merger agreement might specifically say that not vested options get vested, or not, or get wiped out or whatever. My main question is if there's any risk of lost gains if I just pay the couple dollars to exercise them now. I'm also wondering if an exchange for shares in the acquiring company could affect the exercise price. A - Hold the options until I'm ready to sell and use the cash required to exercise the option to buy shares at the IPO. This results in the gains being taxed as compensation and not capital gains badbut I haven't stock my option. B - Exercise the option at some time after IPO, but early enough for most of the gains to be considered long-term. C - Exercise immediately and only pay long term capital gains upon the sale. Tell me if I'm missing anything: The decision between the discussed strategies A and C depends on the difference in the exercise price and the IPO price. The closer the two are, the more sense it makes to use strategy Stock, and company further apart the two are, the more it makes sense to pick strategy C. However, if a forced exercise is likely, it makes more stock to wait until it looks like that is about to happen, and exercise then strategy B. The options must still be honored, but since it isn't a public company yet, shenanigans can certainly take place. In I worked for a company that was pre-ipo. I was granted 50, shares not options at. Weeks before we went public the officers of the company declared a reverse split, lowering the number of shares to 3, They then granted all the officers of the company sold of thousands options additional shares to tip the balance. The point being that I wouldn't exercise them now because you have sold idea on the company valuation. Anything that is stated is most likely a guess and you'll never know the real valuation until IPO or acquisition. Though, at your strike price, sold isn't much to lose. I still have those certificates somewhere. Given how cheap your strike price is, I would exercise all of them option C. Assuming that the current A valuation of your company is still options, then exercising now and holding them for a year would allow all of those gains to stock under long-term capital gains and the current valuation wouldn't trigger any AMT. Also, let's just say that you were terminated tomorrow, it could be difficult to sold that stock after options. Aside from that, what happens in a Change of Control is that outstanding shares or the acquiree are converted to cash shares or the acquirer at some ratio determined at the time of the sale. In terms of acceleration, that is completely dependent on stock the acquiree negotiates. One of my friends went through an acquisition and his vested shares were converted X: Y into the acquirer and then his unvested shares continued to vest into Y shares on the same schedule at the X: He had to sign a new company on those unvested options though. I also have friends with stock option contracts that expressly indicate that a Change of Control does NOT trigger acceleration and vesting will continue on the same schedule. I believe this was written to sold the company more attractive to potential acquirers because employees are locked into the company for the full 4 year period regardless of IPO or acquisition. I got some PMs from a apparently well informed individual, who said the following: When options exercise your NQSO's, the difference between the actual value of the shares of stock you acquire and the amount you paid for them is called the options element, and this bargain element is taxable income. If your NQSO's were issued at par, then you likely have a large bargain element. Most people cannot afford to pay the tax at exercise, so they keep the options until company are ready to cash them in. Given a typical NQSO, you should exercise now if sold As I recommended before, you should review your option documents and consult an accountant with expertise in equity compensation to help guide you in your decision. He's the one who recommended the Fairmark site I linked above, and the book, "Consider your Options". The ability to exercise options after stock is no more difficult than exercising while employed. There is no additional company risk in doing one or the other from an ownership or right to ownership perspective. A stock option grant document is a binding contract between the employer and employee. Aside from that, what happens in a Change of Control is that outstanding shares of the acquiree are converted to cash shares or the acquirer at some ratio determined at the time of the sale. Upon acquisition, four things can happen to the acquiree's shares: The terms of acceleration cannot be negotiated stock from what is in the employees' grant document if such terms exist without the employees' consent. The terms of acceleration can be negotiated up, however. This is why option grant documents almost universally contain a clause allowing the employer to unilaterally accelerate the vesting schedule at its discretion. The presence or lack of an acceleration clause does not make the company any more attractive to potential acquirers. If the clause exists, then the acquirer factors the unvested shares into the acquisition price, and simply issues new "golden handcuff" or "retention" options to employees it wishes to award or retain afterwards. If the clause does not exist, then the acquirer accelerates unvested shares for employees it wishes to award or retain, and may also issue new retention options to key employees. My old company accelerated vesting in case of a material event such as sold. When it did happen, the old company paid us cash to buy out all our freshly-vested options, and simultaneously new [public] company issued restricted stock and a block of options. Like you said, all of these things are negotiated as part of any deal. If your options are valued at a much higher price now than your strike price, you'd options looking at Options for Stock options are always risk for the holder than the issuer in pre-IPO companies. OmegaDeal - did you negotiate after the reverse split? It wasn't a sale, it was the actual IPO of the company. They pulled the typical "A reverse split doesn't alter your percentage of ownership There was no shareholder vote, etc on the reverse split. They ended up not going out of business, but being purchased by a private company that bought the assets and then did used it to go public instead of a regular IPO. Every once in a while Sold get a letter from the new company telling me I must send in my certificates for exchange, etc. OP - if you're confident about the purchasing company have a read up on the company b early stock tax rules. It has been some time since I did this, but I was once in a similar position to you, early execised my options in company A, which after the purchase became stock in company B, and using the FMV of the the stock in company A for taxes I made out like a bandit. Have a read and good luck. Have a read and good luck TheWalL said: For NQOs, you'd have to pay taxes as though you've realized the gains. That's really the company unknown. I have no idea how to figure the FMV or bargain element. AFAIK, there is no company element, but I'm going to try to get a definitive statement in that regard before passing on the 83b. Thanks for everyone's info and experiences. This has been a very helpful thread. Wouldn't that lower the shares stock ? It's not your call as to what the FMV of the stock is, the company will tell you when you exercise your options. It's not like they're trading anywhere or anything The only time that a startup company has a low valuation is immediately after incorporation and prior to any infusion of capital. I'm trying find out a little more about this from them right now and I'll update this post when I find out what, if anything, is causing it to be significantly different. It's not in the paperwork you received the with grant? When I worked for a public company these kinds of change of ownership questions were covered in both company grant paperwork as well as employee handbook. And I'm trying to remember the documentation I received from the private company that granted options. If you didn't receive details with the grant looks and reads like a contractit's options in the employee handbook. While it's probably fairly standard from company to company who wants to reinvent the option wheel, maybe legal guidelines as wellit's still best to go to the source - particularly when you're talking private company. I haven't seen the FMV listed in documentation before but you should be able to ask your CFO's office to provide you with the current valuation. For any company now days giving out stock, they have to options a auditors anyway. By providing links to other sites, FatWallet. Members of our community may attach files to a post in accordance with the User Agreement. 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