Armin Brecher joined the firm in 1969.  His representative experience extends to:

• Practicing in employee benefits and executive compensation (with emphasis in merger, acquisition and leveraged buy-out and spin-off transactions involving employee benefit plans, executive compensation programs and employee stock ownership plans), defined benefit plans, executive compensation issues and multi-employer plans
• Handling employee benefits regulatory matters, including the design, negotiation, and preparation of executive compensation agreements, and welfare, pension and profit sharing plans including related labor, tax, securities and other compliance issues
• Acting as advisory counsel on ERISA litigation matters
• Acting as a mediator or arbitrator of executive compensation disputes, including as a neutral
• Serving as special counsel to a number of companies on transactional or compliance matters, particularly as related to employee benefit plans and executive compensation issues
• Speaking and serving as a seminar panelist on such topics as nonqualified deferred compensation, use and misuse of ESOP's in corporate transactions, ESOP's as a takeover defense, employee benefits plans as a corporate financing technique and executive compensation issues

Bar and Court Admissions

Georgia, 1970

Education

University of Virginia, LL.B., 1969

Emory University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1966

Professional Affiliations

• ESOP Association – Past Member
• International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution – Past Member, Employment Panel of Distinguished Neutrals
• Lawyers Foundation of Georgia – Fellow
• National Center for Employee Ownership – Past Member
• Southern Employee Benefits Conference – Past Member

Civic Involvement and Honors

• Best Lawyers (Employee Benefits Law, 2007-2011)
• Georgia Super Lawyer (2007-2011)
• Marquis Who's Who in America (2008-2011)
• National Medallion Award (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008)