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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices

Ballard Spahr LLP
1735 MARKET STREET, 51ST FLOOR
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-7599
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
Visit website 1 215 665 8500 1 215 864 8999

Brian Pinheiro

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(215) 864-8511 [email protected]

Work Department

Business and Transactions

Position

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group

Career

Brian M. Pinheiro is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group and has served as Chair of the firm’s Business and Transactions Department.

He represents for-profit, tax-exempt, church, and government employers on matters relating to executive compensation, including Section 409A and the Section 280G golden parachute rules; tax-qualified retirement plans, including cash balance pension plans; 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans; and health and welfare benefit plans.

Admissions

Pennsylvania

District of Columbia

 

 

 

Memberships

American Bar Association

District of Columbia Bar Association

Pennsylvania Bar Association

Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Adjunct Professor, courses on employee benefits policy and tax-qualified retirement plans

Board of Trustees, Settlement Music School, the largest community school of the arts in the United States

PENJERDEL Employee Benefits and Compensation Association (PEBA)

Education

The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law (J.D. 1995); Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. 1997); Boston College (B.A. 1992).

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design

(Leading partners)

Brian Pinheiro – Ballard Spahr LLP

Ballard Spahr LLP‘s employee benefit and executive compensation team, renowned in the healthcare and life science industries, has a particular strength in helping clients navigate the ever-changing legal landscape surrounding health benefit plans, advising companies large and small. Based in Philadelphia, practice leader Brian Pinheiro focuses on statutory and regulatory rules concerning tax-qualified retirement plans, pension plans including cash-balance and 401(k) plans, and health and welfare benefit plans, and Edward Leeds focuses on issues relating to the design, administration and taxation of health and welfare plans as well as ACA and HIPAA compliance.  Washington DC’s D. Finn Pressly advises on domestic partner benefits, retiree health and welfare plans and assists employers in analyzing the impact of new legislation on benefit schemes.

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