Mark D. Wincek is the leader of the Employee Benefits Practice Group of Kilpatrick Townsend. His practice concentrates on qualified plans, fiduciary matters and executive compensation, and it encompasses counseling, transactions and controversies.
Mr. Wincek is the author of the chapter on “SERPs and Excess Plans” in the BNA Books Section 409A Handbook, and his list of professional publications includes dozens of articles on compensation and benefits issues. In addition, Mr. Wincek is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, a member of the ECFC Flex Advisory Council, and a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, where he served as Chairman of the Statutory Welfare Benefits Subcommittee (1986-1990).
From 1976 to 1981, Mr. Wincek was on the staff of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, serving as Senior Subcommittee Counsel to the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee in 1980 and 1981. While on the Hill, Mr. Wincek participated in the initial drafting and enactment of Code section 125, the Code provisions on dependent care assistance, as well as provisions that still govern health and welfare plan nondiscrimination.
Mr. Wincek has been listed since 2005 in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Law, as a “Leading Individual (Employee Benefits)” and as a member of a highly ranked Washington benefits practice. He also has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Employee Benefits Law since 2005, and he is ranked as a “leading expert” in the Legal 500 (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation). He has been repeatedly listed as a Corporate Counsel “Top Lawyer” and a Washington “Super Lawyer,” and in 2012 and 2013 was named to Super Lawyer’s list of the top 100 Washington attorneys (without regard to specialty). Based on an independent survey of Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Wincek was named to BTI’s Client Service All-Star Team. Mr. Wincek was recognized by Legal Media Group in its 2012 Guide to the World's Leading Labor and Employment Lawyers.
