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Partner
Tax & ERISA Practice
Richmond
(804) 788-8402 Phone
(804) 343-4566 Fax
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Employee Benefits
Employee Benefits
Litigation
ERISA Litigation
Taxation: Federal,
State, Local &
Cross-Border
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Practice focuses on all areas of employee benefits, including executive and stock-based compensation, ERISA issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, pension and welfare plans and issues of fiduciary responsibility.
Relevant Experience 
- Advised clients on the design and implementation of stock-based compensation plans including stock options, awards of restricted and phantom stock and stock appreciation rights.
- Advised clients on all aspects of executive compensation including the design, disclosure and implementation of supplemental pension plans, excess benefit plans and employment agreements.
- Negotiated employee benefits issues arising in numerous corporate acquisitions and divestitures and reorganizations.
- Advised clients on change in control and severance matters, including the golden parachute excise tax and deduction limits.
- Designed and implemented employee stock ownership plans and alternative arrangements for the investment by qualified plans in employer securities.
- Advised clients in connection with the investment of plan assets in entities such as limited partnerships, limited liability companies, collective trusts and other nonpublic entities.
- Represented clients in ERISA litigation including suits alleging breaches of fiduciary duty, claims for surplus pension assets and claims for benefits.
- Advised clients in connection with the standards of fiduciary duty prescribed by ERISA.
Background
- Law Clerk, Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District Court of Virginia 1979–80
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee, Tax Section
- Member, Central Virginia Employee Benefits Council
- Member, National Center for Employee Ownership
Awards and Professional Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, since 1991.
Education - J.D., University of Richmond School of Law, 1979
- B.A., University of Virginia, with distinction, Government and Foreign Affairs, 1975
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J. Ritter, II
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