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practice areas

practice accolades

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Listed, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Nationally) in Chambers USA (2012)

Listed, Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in The U.S. Legal 500 (2012)

honors + affiliations

Member, District of Columbia Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, The ESOP Association

Member, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

bar admissions

  • District of Columbia
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Patrick Rehfield
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Email: prehfield@morganlewis.com
Washington, D.C.
1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-2541
Phone: 202.739.5640
Fax: 202.739.3001

Patrick Rehfield is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. Mr. Rehfield focuses on the securities and legal aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation matters, ESOPs, and other qualified and nonqualified employee benefit plans, including equity compensation, executive contracts, and Section 409A compliance. Mr. Rehfield also has worked with publicly traded companies on SEC disclosure and compliance issues, NYSE and NASDAQ listing requirements and other corporate governance matters. He also has dealt with both federal and state income tax issues relating to mergers, acquisitions and other restructurings, as well as tax controversy and compliance matters with payroll tax audits, FICA refund claims, and multi-state tax and withholding issues.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Rehfield was an associate at a U.S.-based law firm, where he was a member of their tax section.

Mr. Rehfield earned his LL.M. in securities and finance from Georgetown University Law Center in 2003 and his J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in 2000.

Mr. Rehfield is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, 2003, LL.M.
  • Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, 2000, J.D.
  • Indiana University, 1997, B.S.