Gage helps clients structure and sustain complex employee benefit and executive compensation plans.
Gage works closely with individuals and business of all sizes – from startups to Fortune 500 companies – to plan and defend customized benefits and executive compensation plans. He enjoys proactively auditing risk and compliance with clients, viewing it as an opportunity to identify efficiencies and tax savings. Clients in healthcare, technology, education, manufacturing and nonprofit sectors are among those relying on Gage’s counsel. He helps clients streamline legal complexities including:
- Internal Revenue Code Section 409A
- Internal Revenue Code Section 280G
- Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m)
- Fringe benefit plans
- Health and welfare plans
- Qualified and nonqualified retirement plans
Before joining the firm, Gage worked with the world’s largest professional services firm, counseling on similar tax issues for clients domestically and internationally. Gage also led his own startup business while in college and worked as a corporate legal intern for one of the nation's leading insurance companies. Clients appreciate his broad view on benefits & compensation issues and his passion for positioning them optimally no matter where the conversation begins.