Former Treasury Department Official Joins Morgan Lewis’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice
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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1, 2007: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is pleased to announce that Daniel L. Hogans, formerly an attorney-advisor in the Office of Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has joined the firm as a member of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, resident in the Washington, D.C. office.
While at the Department of the Treasury, Mr. Hogans had a leading role in the development of tax policy in a number of significant areas, including nonqualified deferred compensation plans (under Section 409A of the Tax Code), employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and equity compensation arrangements. Mr. Hogans also served as an advisor to senior Treasury officials and congressional staff on both legislative and regulatory matters relating to employee benefits and executive compensation arrangements of corporations and partnerships.
“Dan’s Treasury background and extensive experience in executive compensation, ESOPs, and transactional matters fits perfectly with our very broad-based and diversified employee benefits and executive compensation practice,” said Robert Lichtenstein, head of Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. “Dan will be able to step in immediately and work with our clients and his new colleagues here at Morgan Lewis in addressing cutting-edge issues in a broad range of areas. We are delighted he is joining us in Washington.”
Morgan Lewis’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice consists of more than 60 professionals based in nine offices. It is one of the largest in the country and offers a level of substantive knowledge, industry experience, and technical skill that makes the firm a nationwide leader in finding creative solutions to companies’ benefits and compensation problems. Mr. Hogans’s practice will focus on equity and incentive compensation plans, employment arrangements, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, qualified retirement plans, transactional matters, and tax planning advice. In addition to working with colleagues in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, Mr. Hogans will work closely with former Deputy IRS Commissioner Mark Matthews and former IRS Deputy Chief Counsel Gary Wilcox, each of whom has brought considerable tax policy and planning experience to the firm.
“Dan’s reputation in Washington and across the industry will add to the firm’s strong standing in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation both in Washington and nationwide,” added Partner Gregory L. Needles, head of Morgan Lewis’s Washington Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice.
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