Mr Anthony (Tony) Eppert > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr Anthony (Tony) Eppert

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Work Department

Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits, Corporate, Corporate Governance and Board Advisory, Tax, ERISA Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Mr. Eppert leads Hunton Andrews Kurth’s multi-disciplinary compensation practice, focusing on executive compensation matters. He advises private and publicly-traded clients and their boards of directors on domestic and international executive contracts and equity incentive arrangements (including their related issues of tax, accounting, proxy rules, Section 16 filings, listing rules, governance issues and non-competition agreements), incentive compensation arrangements within M&A deals (including stay bonuses, change-in-control bonuses and 280G calculations), and ESOP transactions. Additionally, Mr. Eppert often represents boards of directors or management teams/executive officers in new-hire/termination situations.

Mr. Eppert serves as a member of (i) the Employee Benefits Committee for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, (ii) the Board of Advisors for TheCorporateCounsel.net, and (iii) the Board of Directors for the National Association of Stock Plan Administrators (Houston Chapter). Mr. Eppert is the sole speaker at the Executive Compensation Academy, which provides monthly training webinars for the past 14 years. He is also the primary thought leader to the C-Suite Compensation Center.

In addition to attaining an LL.M. (Taxation) from New York University (the #1 tax school in the U.S.), Mr. Eppert was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Memberships

• Admitted to the Texas and California State Bars
• Employee Benefits Committee for the US Chamber of Commerce
• TheCorporateCounsel.net (Member of Board of Advisors)
• National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (Board Member, Houston Chapter)
• The ESOP Association
• National Center for Employee Ownership
• Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
• National Association of Corporate Directors

Education

• LL.M., (Taxation), New York University, 1999
• JD, Michigan State University College of Law, cum laude, Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, Journal of Medicine and Law, 1998
• BA, Michigan State University, 1993