Robert Neis

Rob specializes in executive compensation matters, including nonqualified deferred compensation plans, equity-based arrangements, excess parachute payments, and related deduction and excise tax issues. Rob also advises both taxable and tax-exempt organizations on qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, Affordable Care Act compliance, and employment taxes.

Before joining Deloitte, Rob was a partner at a top 10 global law firm and had spent six years with the US Treasury Department as the Benefits Tax Counsel (and Deputy Benefits Tax Counsel). At the Treasury Department, he served as the principal legal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy on employee benefits matters and worked regularly with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Economic Council, Domestic Policy Counsel and other federal agencies. Rob also represented the United States at the Working Party on Private Pensions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and has been involved many cross-border issues facing globally mobile employees and their employers.

Rob is a fellow with the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and is actively involved with the American Bar Association, where he is a vice chair of the Subcommittee on Employee Benefits Executive Compensation, Fringe Benefits. He is also a co-chair of the Executive Compensation National Institute sponsored by the Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.

Rob received a BS in Political Science from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, and JD from Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.