Bret provides strategic legal counsel in matters of corporate governance and compliance, employee benefits and ERISA, restructuring, and negotiating complex business transactions.
Bret represents private and public businesses, including large multi-national corporations, in addressing the unique corporate, governance, and benefits issues that impact these organizations. He aims to become an extension of his clients’ compliance teams and often advises management committees, compensation committees, and boards of directors on strategic business initiatives and compliance matters.
Additionally, he has significant experience addressing a wide range of complex employee benefits issues for many types of businesses in a variety of industries. Bret works with clients that have complex organizational and management structures, including multiple employer plans and professional employer organizations. He is a frequent speaker and presenter on employee benefit hot topics in the areas of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, and multiple employer plans.
Bret also represents governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, human resources executives, compensation committees, and benefit committees, among others. In this capacity, he assists his clients with compliance matters in connection with tax, labor, and securities regulations.