Alton C Ward

Practice Areas

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation; Health & Welfare Plans; Professional Employer Organizations; Executive Compensation; Qualified Retirement Plans; Tax Exempt Organizations; Fiduciary & Prohibited Transactions

Career

Al Ward has focused for over four decades on executive deferred compensation, employee benefits, trusts and taxation. He represents many clients including publicly traded and privately held, taxable and tax-exempt entities and professional corporations with respect to their benefit programs. Al has extensive experience representing clients in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Prior to entering the practice of law, he was an actuarial and employee benefits consultant for over eight years.

Al served as chairman of the Tampa Bay Pension Council from 1991 to 2012. He was a founding board member and past president of the Florida West Coast Employee Benefits Council. He serves as employee benefits counsel for The Florida Bar, is a member of the Southern Employee Benefits Conference, and a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He is a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

Professional Memberships

Gulf Coast Area TE/GE Council: Membership Chairman (2007-2010)

American College of Employee Benefits Counsel: Fellow

Florida West Coast Employee Benefits Council: Past President; Founding Board Member; Board of Directors (1984-1989)

Tampa Bay Pension Council: Chairman (1991-2012); Founding Member

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