Gail W. Stewart

Gail Stewart serves as the chair of the firmwide employee benefits & executive compensation section. She has been in the firm’s tax department since 1983 and has extensive experience with the design and implementation of executive compensation arrangements, such as equity-based incentive programs, salary continuation plans, golden parachute arrangements and employment agreements. She also provides counsel to companies on the design and regulatory compliance of pension, profit sharing and employee stock ownership plans and welfare benefit plans.

In the executive compensation area, Ms. Stewart helps clients establish and manage executive compensation plans and arrangements, as well as negotiate and draft employment and severance agreements with senior executives of publicly traded and privately held companies.

Ms. Stewart also regularly advises clients on employee benefits issues attendant to mergers, acquisitions, public offerings and bank loans, as well as on prohibited transactions and fiduciary problems relating to employee benefit plan investments. She represents clients of all sizes, both public and private, in a variety of industries.

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Areas of Practice 1) Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, 2) Pension, 3) Benefits & ERISA Litigation and 4) Tax Practice
Law School Baylor University School of Law, J.D.,1983
Education Baylor University, B.B.A, 1980
Bar Member / Association Texas State Bar Associations, American State Bar Associations
Most recent firm Baker Botts LLP
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