Andrew Stumpff

Mr. Stumpff represents senior level executives in negotiating executive compensation terms, employment agreements, and stock option plans. He assists companies in employee benefits negotiations and due diligence actions associated with corporate mergers and acquisitions for both acquirors and sellers.

In addition to helping clients navigate employee benefits and executive compensation matters, Andrew Stumpff also counsels clients in employment-relations disputes and labor negotiations involving employee benefits issues. He confines his practice exclusively to representing labor organizations and employees in this regard. He has advised employers with respect to employee benefits plan audits by the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, advised a multi-million dollar retiree healthcare Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association (VEBA) in reaching a settlement regarding financial obligations of the sponsoring employer, and has navigated numerous other employment relations scenarios on behalf of labor organizations and employees.

Before joining Butzel, Andrew was a partner at a large New York-based international law firm. Mr. Stumpff has served as an Assistant Branch Chief in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel— Employee Benefits and Exempt Organizations Division, where he helped oversee national employee benefits litigation. Andrew teaches Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation at the University of Michigan Law School and at the University of Alabama Law School LL.M. in the Taxation program. He has published widely in the benefits field, and is the author of two law school casebooks: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, published in 2011, and Executive Compensation, published in 2016; and coauthor of a third, Langbein, Pratt, Stabile & Stumpff, Pension and Employee Benefit Law, published in 2015 (all published by Foundation Press), as well as treatises and numerous articles.

Andrew Stumpff is a Shareholder based in Butzel’s Ann Arbor office and is a leader of the firm’s Executive Compensation Practice Department. He has been recognized time and again over the course of his extensive career by numerous prestigious legal publications as among the top lawyers in Michigan and the nation in the areas of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Law. In addition to authoring numerous articles and publications pertinent to employee benefits and executive compensation, Mr. Stumpff also frequently serves as a presenter at a variety of industry forums and conferences on these topics.

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Education

Washington University 1983, A.B. (Mathematics)

University of Michigan Law School 1986, J.D.

Memberships

• Assistant Branch Chief in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel – Employee Benefits and Exempt Organizations Division
• New York State Bar Association Tax Section – Former Co-Chair, Employee Benefits Committee

Awards & Recognitions

Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Best Lawyers in America® - Lawyer of the Year, Employee Benefits - ERISA Law, 2022

Best Lawyers in America®, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2017-2024

Michigan Super Lawyers, Employee Benefits, 2015-2023

DBusiness Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit, Employee Benefits Law, 2016-2018, 2020-2023

Article Editor, Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School