Edward A. Razim III

Career

Ed helps large corporations and closely held businesses navigate complex employee benefits and executive compensation issues in major transactions, including negotiating benefits in M&A deals and resolving IRS audits and plan compliance issues.

Ed represents large publicly traded companies to small businesses in drafting and implementing employee benefit and executive compensation programs. He assists clients with compliance issues related to Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, equity compensation plan design, and employee benefits matters in corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ed helps resolve unique plan design issues for controlled groups of corporations and businesses and negotiates with the IRS, U.S. Department of Labor, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on audit and compliance matters.

Ed’s representative experience includes assisting clients with retirement plan correction issues, negotiating employee benefits aspects in significant corporate transactions, advising clients on welfare benefit plan compliance issues, and designing equity incentive and other executive compensation arrangements.

Professional Memberships

Chairman, ERISA Industry Group

Member, American Bar Association Section of Taxation Employee Benefits Committee

Member, State Bar of Texas

Member and past chair, IRS Gulf States Key District TE/GE Council

Member, SouthWest Benefits Association

Past chair, Education Committee

Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel

Personal

Adjunct law faculty, Southern Methodist University School of Law (2000-2006)

- Taxation of Deferred Compensation (2000-2006)

- Employee Benefits Law (2001-2005)

Board of directors, Make-A-Wish Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana