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Max J. Schwartz
Partner
New York
Phone +1-212-558-4000
Fax +1-212-558-3588
Max Schwartz is a co-managing partner of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Practice Group. He has broad-based
experience in the securities, tax, and labor (ERISA and other) laws impacting executive compensation and employee benefits,
and advises Firm clients on both a regular ongoing basis and in the context of corporate transactions and initial public
offerings.
Mr. Schwartz has written and lectured extensively on executive compensation and benefit matters. He is a charter member of
the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Inc. He is currently co-chairman of the annual ALI-ABA two-day Executive
Compensation conference and is former co-chairman of the annual PLI Executive Compensation Program. He is a member of the
tax section of the American Bar Association (former chair of the Executive Compensation Subcommittee of the Employee
Benefits Committee); a member of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Committee of the Corporate Banking and
Business Law Section of the ABA; a member of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association (former member of the
Executive Committee of the Section of Taxation and former co-chair of its Committee on Employee Benefits). He is also on the
Employee Benefits Advisory Committee for the Practising Law Institute.
Mr. Schwartz is widely recognized as a leader of this field in recent consecutive editions of established guides to the
legal profession, including
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (yearly since 2004);
New York
Super Lawyers – named as one of the top 100 lawyers in New York in all fields and as a leading lawyer in Employee
Benefits/ERISA (yearly since 2006);
The Legal 500 United States (yearly since 2007);
PLC Which Lawyer?
Yearbook (yearly since 2002);
PLC Cross-border Labour & Employee Benefits Handbook (yearly since 2005); and
The Best Lawyers in America (yearly since 1995). He was recently named by
Human Resource Executive magazine
(in conjunction with Lawdragon) as one of the Nation’s Top 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys (2009, 2010, 2011) and as
one of the Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys - Top 10 for ERISA Law (2010).
PRACTICE AREAS
Executive Compensation and
Benefits
EDUCATION
1973,
University of Michigan Law School, J.D.
1970,
Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris), B.A.
BAR ADMISSIONS
New York
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