Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits, Corporate, Corporate Governance and Board Advisory, Tax, ERISA Litigation

Partner

Mr. Eppert leads the Firm’s multi-disciplinary compensation practice, focusing on executive compensation and ESOP transaction matters. He advises private and publicly-traded clients and their boards of directors on domestic and international executive contracts and equity incentive arrangements (including their related issues of tax, accounting, proxy rules, Section 16 filings, listing rules, governance issues and non-competition agreements), incentive compensation arrangements within M&A deals (including stay bonuses, change-in-control bonuses and 280G calculations), and designing and implementing ESOP transactions. Additionally, Mr. Eppert often represents boards of directors or management teams/executive officers in new-hire/termination situations.

Mr. Eppert serves as a member of (i) the Employee Benefits Committee for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and (ii) the Board of Advisors for TheCorporateCounsel.net. Mr. Eppert is the sole speaker at the Executive Compensation Academy, which provides monthly training webinars for the past 14 years. He is also the primary thought leader to the C-Suite Compensation Center.

In addition to obtaining an LL.M. (Taxation) from New York University (the #1 tax school in the U.S.), Mr. Eppert was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Admitted to the Texas and California State Bars Employee Benefits Committee for the US Chamber of Commerce TheCorporateCounsel.net (Member of Board of Advisors) National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (Board Member, Houston Chapter) The ESOP Association National Center for Employee Ownership Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals National Association of Corporate Directors

LL.M., (Taxation), New York University, 1999 JD, Michigan State University College of Law, cum laude, Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, Journal of Medicine and Law, 1998 BA, Michigan State University, 1993