Joe Urwitz, ’05, Joins Crowell & Moring as Partner
Benefits and Compensation Lawyer Joe Urwitz Joins Crowell & Moring
Joe Urwitz joins Crowell & Moring as a partner in its Tax Group, bringing in-depth experience guiding clients on executive compensation and employee benefits issues in complex M&A, private equity, and capital markets transactions.
Urwitz represents a wide range of Fortune 50 companies in the private equity, technology, and health care industries. For example, he advised a major insurance company on a phantom award unit plan for its top executives and has helped numerous physicians’ practices structure their retirement and health benefits following acquisitions due to corporate practice of medicine rules. Urwitz also represented one of the largest private equity firms in the world on its $3-billion acquisition of a cable channel.
“We are focused on expanding our transactional tax practice and Joe’s experience is key in taking our benefits practice to the next level,” said Christine Lane, co-chair of the firm’s Tax Group. “Joe deepens our bench strength to handle our increasing flow of complex corporate transactional work.”
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