Brian D. Hector

Partner

Brian D. Hector is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice.

Mr. Hector focuses his practice on ERISA and employee benefits law including the areas of ESOPs, qualified plans, all types of executive compensation, fiduciary liability, and related securities law issues.

Mr. Hector has served as counsel to companies and shareholders regarding the use of ESOPs in numerous transactions, including equity repurchases, ownership succession transactions, and corporate reorganizations. He has also represented lenders and trustees in ESOP transactions.

Mr. Hector has an impressive history working with all types of benefit plans, executive compensation arrangements, IRS and Department of Labor self-correction programs, plan terminations, cafeteria plans, health and welfare plans, Keogh plans, VEBAs, multiple employer plans, prohibited transactions and prohibited transaction exemptions, Section 404(c) issues, partial terminations, benefit plans for tax-exempt organizations including Section 457 plans, church plans, and Section 403(b) plans, and split-dollar and corporate-owned life insurance arrangements. He has also represented several clients before the IRS and the Department of Labor in connection with employee benefits matters.

Mr. Hector has lectured extensively regarding employee benefits and ESOPs. He speaks regularly at the annual national conferences of The ESOP Association, the National Center for Employee Ownership, at their local and regional conferences, and at numerous other seminars.

He has also taught at John Marshall Law School in the area of Employee Benefits Law.

Mr. Hector received his J.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent in 1989 and his B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1983.

Mr. Hector is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the U.S. Tax Court.