Susan Skaer was the top lawyer at Silicon Valley high-flier Mercury Interactive for five years. Today, the recently married Skaer sells real estate in Palo Alto, California, under her new name of Susan Tanner. Skaer is just one of a plethora of Silicon Valley in-house lawyers whose careers were turned upside down by backdating - the widespread and illegal practice of companies picking stock option grant dates after the fact and not accounting for them properly.
May 14, 2008 at 09:05 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
Susan Skaer was the top lawyer at Silicon Valley high-flier Mercury Interactive for five years. Today, the recently-married Skaer sells real estate in Palo Alto, California, under her new name of Susan Tanner.
Skaer is just one of a plethora of Silicon Valley in-house lawyers whose careers were turned upside down by backdating – the widespread and illegal practice of companies picking stock option grant dates after the fact and not accounting for them properly.
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