Robert Wynne > McGuireWoods LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile

McGuireWoods LLP maintains a growing employee benefits and executive compensation practice, handling a broad range of matters for a diverse client base across industries. Led by Taylor Wedge French in Charlotte and Gerald Thomas in Atlanta, the team regularly advises on incentive compensation structures, ERISA compliance, and executive agreements. The firm’s experience spans complex benefits-related transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring mandates. Clients include major financial institutions, energy providers, and multinational corporations, with the firm frequently engaged for its ability to navigate intricate benefits programs. The practice continues to expand its national footprint, with figures such as Robert Wynne  and Allison Tanner playing a key role.

Acclaimed for its ‘deep technical expertise coupled with practical knowledge’, McGuireWoods LLP‘s employee benefits and tax practice covers both traditional benefit and compensation matters as well as issues demanding a broader, multidisciplinary approach. The team is led from Charlotte by Taylor French, whose expertise covers the range of benefit, compensation and retirement plan design and implementation for clients that range from large financial entities to nonprofit organizations. Also in Charlotte is Allison Tanner, who counsels clients on plan issues arising under ERISA and the IRC. The leading lawyer in the Richmond office is Robert Wynne, whose ‘ability to distill complex legal concepts into actionable advice’ makes him a specialist in plan design in the context of M&A, and Chicago’s Carolyn Trenda leads in health, welfare and fringe benefit plan design.