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Gage M. Maurer

Associate

Milwaukee
office: 414.978.5385
fax: 414.223.5000

email: gage.maurer@huschblackwell.com

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Overview

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.

Service

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Education

J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
- Wisconsin Mock Trial Team
- Thomas Tang Moot Court Competitor
B.B.A., Viterbo University
- magna cum laude
- Management
- NCBCA Academic All-American Scholar Award
- Outstanding Student Leader Award

Admissions

Wisconsin

Experience

Advised multi-national employees on taxation and benefits implications of inbound and outbound short-term assignments, long-term assignments and permanent transfers, including qualified and nonqualified retirement plans and rollovers.
Provided guidance on Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements, Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) and impact of U.S. tax treaty provisions on qualified plans.
Counseled rapidly growing U.S.-based tech industry startup regarding cross-border employee benefits to retain talent as company expanded into 17 international locations.
Guided large publicly traded financial services company through tax reform changes of Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) regarding deductibility of executive compensation, specifically grandfathering of equity-based compensation plans.
Calculated penalties and navigated compliance for numerous clients regarding Internal Revenue Code Section 280G (golden parachute payments).
Assisted numerous international and domestic clients in complying with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code regarding nonqualified deferred compensation.

Articles | March 25, 2020

BenefitsPro: The COVID-19 pandemic: key employee benefits and compensation issues to consider

Alerts | March 24, 2020

Key Employee Benefits and Compensation Issues to Consider during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Articles | July 18, 2018

Author, "Workers' compensation bad faith claims in Wisconsin," InsideTrack, State Bar of Wisconsin

Articles | December 31, 2015

Co-Editor, "Anderson on Wisconsin Insurance," 2017-2018 Supplement of the 7th edition, State Bar of Wisconsin

Outside the Office

Having played on his college golf team, Gage remains an avid golfer, along with skiing and playing hockey in the winter. He’s also a devoted fan of the Packers. He and his wife, a school teacher, enjoy spending time with their bernedoodle, Oliver, and visiting Door County.

Gage with his wife and their bernedoodle, Oliver.