Richard A. Sirus

Richard A. Sirus focuses his practice on corporate, transactional, tax, employee benefits, executive compensation and health law. He represents clients ranging from publicly traded companies to Taft-Hartley Benefit Funds, including sole proprietorships and executives, providing counsel on general corporate, planning and fiduciary matters, with broad experience in the design, preparation, implementation and administration of retirement plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), health plans, executive compensation arrangements and fringe benefit programs. Rich consults regularly with clients regarding fiduciary responsibility and liability matters. He also represents and consults with executives in the assessment, negotiation and preparation of employment arrangements and agreements, including compensation and bonus packages, option and equity arrangements, benefits programs, and termination arrangements.

Rich works with taxable and tax-exempt organizations, including consultation regarding multiple and multiemployer plan matters. He has represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He has also served as an expert witness on fiduciary liability and claims issues.

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Areas of Practice 1) Global Benefits & Compensation, 2) Corporate & Securities, 3) Tax, 4) Mergers & Acquisitions, 5) Corporate and transactional, 6) Employee benefits, 7) Executive compensation and 8) Health law
Law School J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1982
Education B.B.A., Loyola University Chicago, 1980
Bar Member / Association State bar of Illinois , U.S. Tax Court
Most recent firm Greenberg Traurig LLP
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