Roberta P. Granadier

Practice Areas

Roberta has over 40 years of experience advising businesses in practice employee benefits and executive compensation matters.

As a member of the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, Roberta works with start-ups, private, public and governmental employers on their qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, executive, equity and incentive compensation programs, ESOPs and insured and self-insured health plans.

Over the course of her career, Roberta advised companies, governmental entities, plan sponsors, plan administrators, human resources professionals, and fiduciaries regarding employee benefit plan compliance (both ERISA and non-ERISA). She has extensive experience with benefits issues in corporate transactions, including change of control parachute excise taxes, plan terminations and spin-offs and transition of benefit programs. Her practice includes retirement and compensation planning and helping clients of all sizes address operational and strategic issues.

Roberta has also assisted companies and their owners in structuring and implementing a sale of company stock to an ESOP and electing tax deferred recognition of gain under IRC Section 1042. She advises compensation committees, ERISA fiduciaries, in-house counsel and human resource executives on fiduciary best-practices, compliance initiatives and plan design.

Roberta earned her law degree from Boston University School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. She has been consistently recognized by Best Lawyers in America® and DBusiness Top Lawyers for ERISA Litigation and Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law.

Roberta is a frequent speaker and author on topics including ERISA, employee benefits, retirement plans, health plans, and statutory and regulatory compliance.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Michigan – Taxation Section; Oakland County Bar Association – Chair and Vice-Chair, Employee Benefits, 1998-2000, 2013-2015; American Bar Association.

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