Henry Talavera

Practice Areas

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Employee Stock Ownership Plans

Sports & Entertainment

Professional Memberships

JCEB Representative, 2022-2023

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School

- Board of Visitors, 2022-2023

City of Dallas Employees’ Retirement Fund

- Chair, 2020-2022

- Vice-Chair, 2020

- Trustee, 2019-2020

American Bar Foundation

- Fellow, 2017-2022

American Bar Association

- Center for Human Rights Advisory Council, 2021-2023

- Commission on Hispanic Rights and Responsibilities, 2017-2020

- Co-Chair, IRA Accounts and Plan Distribution, 2016-2017

- Section of Real Property Trust and Estate Law

- - Employee Benefit Plans & Executive Compensation Group; -

- - Counsel Representative 2021-2022, Chair 2013-2015, Vice-Chair 2011-2012

- - Co-Chair, IRA Accounts and Plan Distribution Committee, 2016-2017

- - Vice-Chair, Plan Transactions and Terminations Committee, 2010-2011

- - Vice-Chair, Welfare Benefit Plans Committee, 2008-2009

- - Section Council Member, Trust and Estate Division, 2016-2021

- - Special Committee on American Bar Association Relations Co-Chair, September 2017-2021

- - Liaison: American Bar Association Commission on Human Rights and Responsibilities, September 2017-2020

- - Liaison: American Bar Association, Real Property, Trust & Estate Representative to American Bar Association, Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, 2014- 2023

CLE Representative, American Bar Association, Joint -Committee on Employee Benefits, 2014-2016

- - Section Council, Trust and Estate Division, 2016-2022

- - Groups and Substantive Committees, Chair 2021-2022, Vice Chair, 2018-2020

- - Liaisons to Other Groups and Organizations Hispanic National Bar Association, 2019-2020

- - Diversity In Inclusion Committee, 2016-2019

- - Member, American Bar Association Commission Center for Human Rights Advisory Council, September 2022-2023

State Bar of Texas

- Tax Section

-- Chair, June 1, 2022-2023

- - Vice Chair, 2021-2022

- - Secretary, 2020-2021

- - Treasurer, 2019-2020

- - Co-Vice Chair, Committee on Governmental Submissions, 2015-2019

- Co-Vice Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, 2014-2016

Dallas Bar Association

- Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits Section | Chair, 2006

Texas Bar Foundation

- Fellow, 2016-2022

The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel

- Fellow

Dallas Hispanic Bar Foundation

- Director, 2015-2019

- Treasurer, 2018-2019

SouthWest Benefits Association

- Board of Directors, 2011-2014

Gulf Coast Area TE/GE Council

- Chair, 2009-2010

Personal

Biography

News

Publications

Henry Talavera’s experience representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, along with his prior experience as a federal government attorney, enables him to handle complex issues for clients.

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