Brian Bloom > Vinson & Elkins LLP > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Vinson & Elkins LLP Offices
TRAMMELL CROW CENTER
2001 ROSS AVENUE, SUITE 3700
DALLAS, TX 75201-2975
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Brian Bloom
Work Department
Executive Compensation & Benefits
Position
Partner
Career
Brian Bloom is an executive compensation and benefits attorney who advises clients on the design, administration and tax aspects of their executive compensation and general employee benefit programs. This includes qualified and nonqualified plans, equity-based and other incentive programs, and a variety of other compensatory arrangements. Brian’s practice also encompasses the executive compensation and benefit aspects of business acquisitions, divestitures, mergers and spin-offs, including transitional matters, parachute arrangements, plan asset and liability transfers and related issues.
With more than 25 years of experience, Brian has represented publicly traded and privately held companies and tax-exempt employers across a wide array of industries including energy, manufacturing, airline, and health care. He has represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor, and has extensive experience handling fiduciary and prohibited transaction matters. Brian has also worked on significant investment fund transactions, both to attract funds from ERISA-covered investors and to assist benefit plans desiring to participate in such funds.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government contracts
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism