Profile

Practice Areas: Leads the firm's Executive Compensation and Benefits Group. Emphasizes ERISA and other employee benefits and executive compensation matters, particularly treatment of employee benefits in M&A and other corporate restructurings; executive compensation issues such as golden parachutes, deferred compensation tax rules and the nondeductibility of annual compensation in excess of $1 million; and issues arising under the short-swing profit and compensation disclosure provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Career: LLM, Taxation, New York University, 1980; JD, Syracuse University, 1976 (survey editor, 1975 Survey of New York Law; Order of the Coif); AB, SUNY Binghamton, 1973.