David Schiller

Corporate, Employee Benefits, ERISA, Executive Compensation, Labor and Employment, Tax

David I. Schiller is in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group and a resident of the Dallas office. He is a 1983 graduate of Stanford Law School with high honors, where he served on the Stanford Law Review, and has a Bachelor of Arts in political philosophy from Cornell University honors program, graduating summa cum laude in 1980.

Mr. Schiller’s Executive Compensation practice runs the full gamut of tax, ERISA, accounting, stock exchange, proxy advisor, corporate and securities law aspects of equity compensation (public and private); nonqualified deferred compensation; SERPs; executive employment agreements, golden parachutes and other change in control arrangements; severance, confidentiality, noncompete contracts; performance bonus and incentive plans; director’s pay; rabbi trusts; split dollar life insurance; excess benefit and top hat plans; and the like.

His experience also includes extensive transactional work on employee benefit related areas of mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, credit agreements, plan assets and private placements.

Mr. Schiller’s practice also covers all aspects of tax qualified plans, including pension, cash balance, 401(k), and ESOPs, as well as 403(b) and 457 plans for tax-exempt organizations.

Mr. Schiller has a special expertise in health and welfare plans, including PBMs, health plan design, ACA compliance, and HIPAA.

Mr. Schiller represents a number of collectively bargained multiemployer plans, including retirement, annuity, health & welfare, and apprenticeship plans.

Mr. Schiller also has done extensive work with ERISA plan asset, prohibited transaction, and fiduciary issues, as well as related areas in ERISA litigation in federal district and appellate courts.

State Bar of Texas

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas