Robert J. "Bob" Friedman
Recognized since 1995
Miami, Florida
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Employment Law - Individuals
Tax Law
Robert Friedman practices in the area of ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation. Since 1996, he has been the head of the firm's national Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and ERISA Practice Group. Mr. Friedman is also co-chair of the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plans) Practice Group. His clients include private, non-profit and governmental employers.
He is a frequent speaker on employee benefits, ERISA fiduciary matters and pension and tax planning. Mr. Friedman’s practice frequently involves working on matters with Holland & Knight lawyers in other specialty areas, including securities, investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, labor, employment and bankruptcy.
Mr. Friedman has extensive experience with all aspects of benefits work, including the design, qualification and drafting of pension, 401(k), profit sharing and other qualified plans, corporate mergers and acquisitions and plan transfers, mergers and terminations, fiduciary matters, executive compensation, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and ERISA related litigation. Mr. Friedman’s practice includes representation of clients in matters with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and other governmental agencies.
Mr. Friedman also has been actively involved with welfare benefit plans, flexible benefit plans and the rules relating to COBRA continuation coverage under such plans. He has experience with the design, implementation, operation and communication of welfare benefit plans, and has been involved with such benefit plans in connection with mergers and acquisitions, reductions in force and other employee terminations and layoffs.
In the area of stock option plans, ESOP’s and other forms of employee ownership, Mr. Friedman’s practice includes developing strategies to achieve employee ownership, creating individually designed plans, and complying with the applicable tax and other statutory and regulatory requirements. His clients in these matters include privately and publicly owned companies.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight as a partner in November 1988, he practiced law in New York and Miami.
- 701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3300
Miami, FL 33131
- Trinity College, B.A. Economics, graduated 1977
- Trinity College, graduated 1977
- Florida, The Florida Bar
- New York, New York State Bar Association
- New Jersey, New Jersey State Bar Association
- Best Buddies International, Inc., Board member; - Executive Board member; Secretary
- Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce - Member
- Trinity College Alumni Club of South Florida - Member
609 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
192 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- Employment Law - Individuals, Miami (2020)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Miami (2019)
- Employment Law - Individuals, Miami (2018)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Miami (2015)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law - Individuals
- Tax Law
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
- Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Tax: Employee Benefits, 2009-2013
- Employment Law - Management
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