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Partner
Tax & ERISA Practice
Richmond
(804) 788-8408 Phone
(804) 788-8218 Fax
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Employee Benefits
Employee Benefits
Litigation
Taxation: Federal,
State, Local &
Cross-Border
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Practice focuses on all areas of ERISA, including the design, implementation and administration of both pension and welfare benefits plans for private taxable and exempt private sector employers and governmental entities. Significant experience with all types of executive and incentive compensation arrangements. Substantial experience with the fiduciary provisions of Title I of ERISA and in addressing compliance problems and coordinating issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. Significant experience regarding fiduciary issues.
Relevant Experience 
- Regularly advises clients on benefits and compensation issues in transactions, including a transaction in excess of $10 billion.
- Significant experience with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, including agreements pertaining to merger and acquisition transactions, spin-offs, and distress terminations.
- Considerable experience in accessing the economic value of overfunded defined benefit plans.
- Independent counsel to fiduciaries of significant plan, involving multiple compliance issues.
- Negotiated favorable solutions for plans with significant compliance problems with the Internal Revenue Service.
- Implemented innovative solutions to nonqualified plan needs of numerous tax exempt organizations.
- Significant experience with governmental plans.
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar, Virginia Bar Association, American Bar Association, Bar Association of the City of Richmond
- Member, ABA Employee Benefits Committee, Section of Taxation (Former Chair)
- Former Chair, ABA's Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
- Member, Board of Trustees, Southern Federal Tax Institute
- Member, Southern Employee Benefits Conference
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Founding Fellow and Member, Board of Governors, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
- Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
- Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation
Awards and Professional Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, since 1989
- Who's Who in American Law, since 1989
- Who's Who in America, since 1993
- Listed in "Virginia Super Lawyers," Richmond magazine, 2006
Education - M.L.&T., William & Mary School of Law, 1969
- J.D., William & Mary School of Law, Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, William & Mary Law Review, 1968
- B.A., Mount Union College, Economics; Blue Key, 1965
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Mark Dray
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