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Chris advises public and privately held companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and individual executives on a wide range of executive compensation and employee benefit matters, including in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions. He regularly counsels clients on the design, implementation, and administration of equity and cash incentive arrangements as well as the applicable tax, securities law, corporate governance, and disclosure implications of those arrangements. Chris also represents clients negotiating executive employment and separation agreements.

In his pro bono work, Chris advises nonprofit organizations on human resource-related matters and represents clients in no-fault divorce proceedings.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (2024-2026)
  • Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s “Up & Coming Lawyers” Class of 2024

Chris advises public and privately held companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and individual executives on a wide range of executive compensation and employee benefit matters, including in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions. He regularly counsels clients on the design, implementation, and administration of equity and cash incentive arrangements as well as the applicable tax, securities law, corporate governance, and disclosure implications of those arrangements. Chris also represents clients negotiating executive employment and separation agreements.

In his pro bono work, Chris advises nonprofit organizations on human resource-related matters and represents clients in no-fault divorce proceedings.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (2024-2026)
  • Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s “Up & Coming Lawyers” Class of 2024
  • American Bar Association member; Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law: vice-chair, Plan Transactions and Terminations Committee of the Employee Plans and Executive Compensation Group (2021-present)
  • Legal extern, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Appeals Board, 2018

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. (Taxation), 2018, Certificate in Employee Benefits
  • University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2016, editor-in-chief, University of Baltimore Journal of International Law
  • University of Maryland, B.A., 2013

Bar Admissions

  • Maryland
  • Virginia

Clerkships

  • Circuit Court for Baltimore County