Bio

Matt Renaud advises businesses and individuals in complex executive compensation matters that involve employment, equity, and separation agreements. Matt also helps companies navigate challenges to their employee benefit plans stemming from investment matters, ERISA fiduciary issues, complex corrections, and audits. He serves as chair of the firm’s Employee Benefits practice. Matt offers clients strong deal experience and instincts for how benefit issues can arise in transactions. He focuses on simplifying complex matters to limit risk and ensure compliance. With Matt’s guidance, compensation committees, management, and individuals negotiate and document complex executive compensation arrangements, steer through problems with employee benefit plan design and compliance and address issues that arise in acquisitions and divestitures. As a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits and adjunct professor at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Matt has more than 30 years of experience in all areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. He helps clients in the aerospace and defense, technology, life sciences, and cannabis industries assess their alternatives based on his experience and market knowledge. Prior to college, Matt was a Pershing II nuclear missile crewman in West Germany with the US Army.