James Deets
Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLC
- Role
- Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Senior Director
Jun 2015 — Present · Dallas, TX, US
James A. Deets is a Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal in Dallas. He specializes in executive compensation, employee benefits and qualified retirement plans and has served as a consulting expert on employee benefits issues within the context of bankruptcy proceedings.With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Deets’ expertise includes qualified plans, such as nondiscrimination and other qualification issues, compliance and correction of plan defects. He has significant experience in health and welfare plans, including PPACA, FMLA, HIPAA and COBRA issues, cafeteria plans, retiree welfare benefits, VEBA trusts, severance plans and multiemployer welfare plans. Mr. Deets advises clients on plans related to executive compensation, nonqualified and stock, employee stock purchase, performance bonus and incentive, split dollar life insurance and top-hat.He has managed the benefits and executive compensation components of mergers and acquisitions, including the applicability and impact of the golden parachute rules. Mr. Deets has garnered considerable experience in ERISA litigation matters involving benefit claims, fiduciary breaches, subrogation/reimbursement and preemption issues.Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Deets was Counsel in the Dallas office of Hunton & Williams LLP, where he focused his practice on employee benefits and executive compensation.Mr. Deets earned a law degree with honors from the Baylor University Law School, where he served as Assistant Managing Editor of the Baylor Law Review. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematical sciences from Baylor University.Mr. Deets is a member of the State Bar of Texas. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Southwestern Benefits Association, DallasHR and the Dallas Bar Association.
Education
Baylor University
B.S., Mathematical Sciences
1986 — 1990
Baylor University School of Law
J.D.
1990 — 1993
Skills
- Legal Research
- Customer Service
- Retirement
- Cafeteria Plans
- Retirement Plan Consulting
- 409a
- Non-Compete Agreements
- Money Purchase
- Plan Compliance
- Deferred Compensation
- Non-Qualified
- Defined Benefit
- Executive Compensation Planning
- Compensation & Benefits
- Employment Contracts
- Health Care Reform
- Team Building
- Due Diligence
- Executive Pay
- Employee Benefits
- Fmla
- 401k
- Health & Welfare Benefits
- Erisa
- Consulting
- 457 Plans
- Human Resources
- Nondiscrimination Testing
- Employment Discrimination
- Qualified Retirement Plans
- Section 125 Plans
- Cobra
- Leadership
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
- Compensation & Benefit
- Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Legal Writing
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