Timothy Patterson

Timothy G. Patterson focuses on employee benefit plans, executive compensation and ERISA. His experience includes regularly counseling corporate, partnership and tax-exempt clients on the design, qualification, administration, amendment and termination of all types of employee benefit plans. These include 401(k) and other qualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefit plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and stock compensation programs. His employee benefits practice also has entailed advising clients on the treatment of employee benefits plans and executive compensation arrangements in corporate merger and acquisition transactions as well as on the use of ESOPs and similar plans to finance corporate transactions.

Tim has represented individual executives in their employment compensation matters, and he has experience with a variety of corporate and individual income tax issues as well as with general corporate law, in particular with closely held corporations and their shareholders.

At Stanford, Tim was a four-year member of the men's varsity basketball team. After graduating from Stanford and prior to law school, he lived in Sweden for two years, where he was a professional basketball player.

Tim is a member of the American Bar Association and a member of the taxation sections of both the American and California bar associations