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Is this compensation package considered insider trading?

Say I work for a PUBLICALLY traded company, such as the MacDonald's Corporation. I am a regional manager, who is in charge of managing 10 MacDonald's restaurants, which bring in 10 million dollars in profits to the company annually, and the ten MacDonald's are worth about 200 million to the corporation (it's stock). One day, I decide that I want to be compensated more than I currently am being, so I come up with a compensation package idea for myself. Here's how it goes- I give MacDonald's corporation 5 million dollars of my own money, then, I state that I will improve the net profit of my sector by innovating to improve efficiency, cut costs, and improve revenue, and that after do so, (adding lasting value to my sector), when the financial reports/ business valuations for my sector show that I have added value to the restaurants under my management (say I increase the profitability by 50 percent, 5 million dollars annually, 100 million dollars increase in worth), that I would get 25 percent of the increase(50 million dollars), by means of a note payable by the MacDonald's corporation to myself. However, after I sign the contract, if the net worth of my sector is to go below what it currently is at during the time when the contract's stipulation are carried out, then I would lose a significant portion of the 5 million dollars I had put into buying the contract (which is very similar to call-options, but is only a negotiation between myself and the corporation). I'M thinking that this WOULD be considered insider trading because of the fact that, before signing the contract and handing over the 5 million dollars, I may have insider knowledge of how I think my region is going to do next quarter. Lets say before I sign the contract, I think that my region will be making more money next quarter, because of factors unrelated to my plans to make my sector more profitable ( say I have "insider knowledge" that several of my units [restaurants] will be acquired by some sort of conglomerate firm, thus causing me to believe the worth of my sector will skyrocket ). By entering into this contract, then, which would ultimately end up in ME getting capital (in the form of the note payable) from MacDonald's corporation, the shareholders would lose a slight bit of value because the shareholders would lose a tiiiiiiny sliver of their stocks gain( due to the acquisition by the conglomerate), which they wouldn't have lost had I not entered into the contract, and not been awarded 25 million? Basically, I could be charged with knowing that the stocks price was going to go up, thus gaining capital from the corporation via insider information, even if I was entering the contract only because I though I would make the sectors worth go up through adding value (again, via entrepreneurial innovation) to my sector? If this is considered insider trading, would it be illegal if I were to have this type of compensation while employed at a company which is privately owned, such as Kaiser? Thanks!

Public Comments

1. McDonalds is spelled MCdonalds not MACdonalds. Since you don't know how to spell McDonalds how are you going to come up with $5M. No this is not considered insider trading. Insider trading is ONLY when you make stock transactions based on insider information (buy, sell, or some other stock transaction). Many employees know "secrets" about how the business is run. If you are a Regional Manager at McDonalds, how can you also work at Kaiser?