R Sterling Perkinson

Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Investment Management & Broker-Dealer, Pension Asset Management, Retirement Plan Design & Administration

Sterling Perkinson focuses his practice on employee benefits and executive compensation. Mr. Perkinson collaborates with plan sponsors, fiduciaries and plan service providers to help them achieve their objectives while reducing their risk. He regularly counsels clients on a wide range of employee benefits issues, including design and administration of retirement plans, retirement plan investment issues, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, IRS and Department of Labor audits, pension de-risking activities, and benefits and executive compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

American Bar Association, Tax Section

North Carolina Bar Association, Tax Section

Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Raleigh Alumnus

401(k) Plan Investments: ESG, Private Equity and Cryptocurrency April 2022

Video | DOL Clarifies Timing of Lifetime Income Disclosures in Benefit Statements August 2021

DOL’s Cybersecurity Initiative: What Employers and Plan Fiduciaries Should be Doing to Protect Participant Data July 2021

PTE 2020-02 for Investment Advice Fiduciaries: Overview and Checklist April 2021

DOL Issues Non-Enforcement Policy for ESG and Proxy Voting Rules March 2021