About Bynum Tudor III

During the first 8 years of practicing law, Bym was an associate at three regional law firms having between 60 and 110 attorneys. While at the third firm, he was responsible for developing an employee benefits practice group where none existed before.

Bym’s practice covers all aspects of employee benefits law, including correcting tax-qualification and defects and fiduciary breaches through IRS and DOL correction programs; advising regarding compliance, operation, amendment, and termination of qualified retirement plans; designing and drafting nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and compensation arrangements designed to be exempt from Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code; negotiation of employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged ESOP transactions and their financing; advising professional employer organizations (PEOs) regarding their employee benefit plans; and litigation of employee benefit issues, including benefit disputes, alleged fiduciary breaches, retirement plans of bankrupt employers, and welfare plan subrogation claims.

He has spoken on various employee benefit topics at seminars sponsored by Lorman Education Services; the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants; Middle Tennessee Employee Benefits Council (Nashville); Middle Tennessee Association of Health Underwriters International Society (Nashville); International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, Greater Nashville Chapter; Tennessee Valley Employee Benefits Council (Knoxville), International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, Knoxville Chapter; and the Highlands Chapter of Certified Public Accountants (Abingdon, Virginia).