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Practice Area
Tax and Employee Benefits
S. John Ryan is a partner in Seward & Kissel�s Employee Benefits Group. He joined the Firm in 1998.
Mr. Ryan advises a variety of clients -- publicly and closely held corporations, partnerships, governmental entities, tax-exempt foundations and sole proprietorships -- concerning all aspects of employee benefits matters. These matters include representation in the structuring, drafting, operation, amendment and termination of qualified and non-qualified pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus and employee stock ownership plans, individual retirement accounts, simplified employee pensions, tax-sheltered annuity programs, stock option plans and group life, disability, medical reimbursement, accident, health and other types of welfare plans. Mr. Ryan has particular expertise with the fiduciary aspects of ERISA and regularly assists clients in developing investment products for the pension plan market, tailoring investment products for specific plan investors and analyzing the fiduciary duties imposed by investment structures.
Mr. Ryan received a J.D. degree from New York School of Law in 1987, an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law in 1988, and a B.A. degree in English from The University of the South in 1982. He is a member of the American Bar Association (section on taxation).
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