Gene has practiced in the employee benefits and executive compensation area for over 20 years advising public and private employers with regional, national and international operations, bank trustees and third-party administrators. His expertise covers the full range of qualified and non-qualified plans, welfare benefit plans, fringe benefit plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans and executive compensation plans.
Representative Experience
- Extensive experience in the design and drafting of qualified retirement plans, including preparation of major amendments for TRA ’86, GUST and EGTRAA, and qualifying plans with the IRS. Regularly counsels employers on administrative and compliance issues, including assistance in correcting qualification failures, prohibited transactions and fiduciary breaches.
- Regularly advises regarding welfare and fringe benefit plans, including COBRA, HIPAA and non-discrimination issues.
- Negotiated and drafted benefit provisions in corporate acquisition for a national health services corporation.
- Designed and drafted an executive compensation package that included an incentive bonus plan for senior managers of a private publishing company.
- Drafted and consulted on comprehensive stock option plans for public company.
- Designed and drafted non-qualified supplemental retirement plans for top management for various public and private companies.
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Prior Legal Experience
Gene served as Law Clerk to Judge Robert Chapman, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals prior to joining Poyner Spruill.