Robert Wynne > McGuireWoods LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
GATEWAY PLAZA
800 EAST CANAL STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States
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Robert Wynne
Career
Robert focuses his practice on all areas of executive compensation and employee benefits law.
His practice includes equity and non-equity-based incentive arrangements; non-qualified deferred compensation; tax-qualified retirement, health and welfare plans; compensation and benefits issues in the M&A context; multiemployer pension plan withdrawal liability; and issues involving ERISA fiduciary responsibilities. He regularly represents clients in interactions with the IRS, DOL and PBGC, and is experienced with the SEC’s executive compensation proxy disclosure rules.
Robert serves as chair of the Board of Trustees of Jackson-Feild Behavioral Health Services, a psychiatric residential treatment facility for adolescents suffering from severe emotional trauma, mental illness and/or addiction.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
McGuireWoods LLP manages employee-related aspects in business acquisitions and dispositions, including the termination, integration, and spin-off of benefit plans. Gerald Thomas leads the firm’s wider tax and employee benefits department from Atlanta, while Charlotte-based Taylor Wedge French co-chairs the employee benefits and executive compensation division, advising clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services, and industrial sectors on stock and asset purchases. In Richmond, Robert Cipolla assists clients with the integration of employee benefit plans post-corporate transactions, while Robert Wynne offers expertise in both equity and non-equity-based incentive schemes. Carolyn Trenda, operating from Chicago, supports clients in restructuring retiree medical programs and consolidating employee benefit plans. In Charlotte, Allison Tanner offers her experience in navigating ERISA and Internal Revenue Code issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense