FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert G. Buydens has been appointed to the Pension Commission of the Village of Grosse Pointe Shores. His term runs through 2011.
Based in Butzel Long's Detroit office, Mr. Buydens concentrates his practice in the area of employee benefits including preparation of pension, money purchase, employee stock purchase, and profit sharing plans for individuals, partnerships, corporations and multiple-employer organizations, as well as the preparation of master plans for profit and non-profit corporations.
Mr. Buydens has substantial experience in providing advice on and drafting welfare benefit plans, including self-funded health care plans, flexible benefit plans, disability plans, and life insurance plans. He is experienced in executive compensation which includes the preparation of deferred compensation plans, management incentive plans, bonus plans and stock option plans. He has been active in the multi-employer and multiple-employer pension area and is experienced in advising clients on plan terminations and withdrawals from multi-employer and multiple-employer plans. He also has acted as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association on ERISA disputes. Mr. Buydens has represented major financial and manufacturing institutions, public institutions and universities, as well as large, medium and small corporations, professional corporations, and partnerships with respect to their employee benefit plan problems.
Mr. Buydens is active in several professional organizations. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, and the American Bar Association (Committee on Employee Benefits-Taxation Section, and Committee on Plan Terminations, Mergers, Asset Transfers and Insurance-Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section). Mr. Buydens' ABA activities have included commenting on proposed Treasury regulations and legislation, and working with members of Congress, the Treasury Department, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and legislative tax committees in drafting new tax legislation.
Mr. Buydens is a member of the Michigan Employee Benefits Conference, for which he previously served as member of the Executive Board and Chairperson. He is listed in the Employee Benefits Law Section of The Best Lawyers in America. He has published articles in Estate Planning, Probate and Property and the Michigan Bar Journal and has lectured for various organizations on employee benefits matters.
Mr. Buydens is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1968) where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and on the Board of Editors of the Michigan Law Review, and Michigan State University (B.A., 1965).
About Butzel Long
Butzel Long is one of America's leading law firms, with 240 attorneys and offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Alliance offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City and Monterrey. The firm is also a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm Butzel Long Tighe Patton. Butzel Long represents clients from diverse industries on a regional, national and multi-national level and is a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com.
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