Practice Areas - Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
- Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity and Hedge Funds
- Counseling for Plan Fiduciaries
- ERISA and Other Benefits Litigation
- ESOPs and Other Stock-Based Plans
- Executive and Incentive Compensation
| - Government Audits and Investigations
- Health and Welfare Plans
- Retirement Plan Design and Counseling
- Corporate and Business Financings
- Financial Institutions and Insurance Finance
- Cross-Border Transactions
- Representing Portfolio Companies and Investors
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 214-651-5573
Fax: 214-200-0665
http://www.haynesboone.com/Charels_Plenge/
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| University | Wesleyan University, B.A., 1967 |
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| Law School | Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., 1970 |
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| Admitted | 1971, District of Columbia; 1977, Texas |
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| Special Agencies | Member, Internal Revenue Service Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT). |
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| Born | Newark, New Jersey |
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| Biography | Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 1969-1970. Attorney-Advisor, The Honorable C. Moxley Featherston, U.S. Tax Court, 1970-1972. Charter Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Listed in: Named Best Lawyers' 2010 Dallas Employee Benefits Lawyer of the Year; Recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America - Employee Benefits Law (Woodward/White, Inc., 2010-2011); Recognized as a Best Business Lawyer in Dallas for ERISA, D Magazine (2009, 2011); Recognized as a Super Lawyer - Employee Benefits/ERISA (2009-2010); Recognized in Who's Who Legal: Texas in Employee Benefits (2008). Member, IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT), 2004—. Charter Fellow, The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.
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| ISLN | 904396261 |
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| Transactions | Representing publicly-held companies regarding the tax issues related to stock option backdating issues.; Representing a publicly-held utility company with the establishment of entirely new compensation programs ranging from preparing revised performance compensation plans for rank and file employees to developing executive compensation arrangements for senior management and directors.; Advising private equity and venture capital companies regarding the establishment of benefits packages for newly acquired companies, including coordinating the activities of the outside benefits consultants and vendors with the in-house benefits staff.; Representing a national company in a class action lawsuit involving the status of an executive compensation plan under ERISA.; Conducting extensive compliance reviews and fiduciary audits of various benefit plans.; Advising a major bank regarding the liability issues associated with an underfunded pension plan and the lender's status under Title IV of ERISA.; Preparing governance charters for publicly-held companies' retirement committees. |
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