Jay’s practice focuses on all areas of employee benefits law.

Jay’s employee benefits practice includes executive and stock-based compensation, ERISA issues arising in mergers, acquisitions and other transactions, 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 executive compensation 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.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of Richmond School of Law, 1979BA, Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, with distinction, 1975