Like many people, Michel Orsinger works for a company going through dramatic change because it has been acquired by a larger company. Unlike many people, Orsinger helped arrange the acquisition. Unlike almost anyone, Orsinger is getting $51.9 million for leaving the old company and a multimillion-dollar pay package from the new company. His new base salary of $700,000 will be a cut in pay from his old firm, but he will have some lucrative bonus opportunities. If he can make do clipping coupons for three years, he will get a stock package worth $17.2 million.
