Legal Opinion
Questrom v. Federated Department Stores, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 25, 1999No. 98 Civ. 0659(LAK)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
In 1990, Alen Questrom was hired as chief executive officer of Federated Department Stores, Inc. (“Federated”) and given the task of leading the company out of bankruptcy. As a spur to his efforts, Questrom’s employment contract provided that he would receive, inter alia, incentive compensation calculated as a fixed percentage of the increase in Federated’s equity value from 1990 until 1995. The contract provided also that the necessary determinations of equity value were to be made by a third party chosen, subject to Questrom’s reasonable objection, by…
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