Alexander Clark
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
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Biography
Alex Clark is a partner in the Dallas office practicing in areas of employee benefits and tax. He represents clients on a range of compensation and benefits matters, including ERISA compliance, the compensation and benefits aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, executive compensation programs, plan terminations, ERISA fiduciary duty and prohibited transaction rules, cross-border employee transfers and benefit plan controversies. Mr. Clark regularly counsels clients on tax and ERISA compliance issues and has significant experience representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service and US Department of Labor. He also advises private equity and hedge funds on compensation issues and ERISA compliance and works with financial institutions in the structuring and implementation of retirement products and services. Additionally, Mr. Clark has considerable experience in federal tax issues related to deferred compensation and tax-exempt organizations.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, 2002
AB, high honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
During law school, Alex received the American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts and the Prosser Prize in Corporate Finance. He was also a member of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. In his undergraduate years at the University of California, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. From August 2001 to May 2002, he also taught an undergraduate course on federal income tax at the University of California's Haas School of Business.
Alex is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, California and Texas.
- Texas State Bar
- The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Best Lawyers, 2024-2025
- The Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, Best Lawyers, 2021-2025
- Co Author, "IRS Releases Proposed Regulations on Employer Shared Responsibility under the Affordable Care Act", Fulbright Briefing, January 28, 2013
- Texas Bar Association
Insights
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