Edward Spacapan Jr.
Edward Spacapan Jr. focuses his practice on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation areas.

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Dedicated to providing each client with an exceptional level of responsive service, Ed structures nuanced employee benefit and executive compensation arrangements that help a variety of Fortune 500 corporations, as well as other public, private and tax-exempt companies realize their business objectives.
Ed works closely with his clients, listening closely to first identify their individual needs before responding with clear, targeted plans and solutions that achieve their goals. When called on, he has successfully represented his clients’ interests in and out of court.
Ed’s clients include some of the nation’s leading automotive manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers and technology and service industries. He also regularly advises a number of not-for-profit organizations.
Client Work
- Ed represents Fortune 500, closely held, tax-exempt corporations with respect to employee benefits. He has extensive experience in areas that include mergers and acquisitions; tax-qualified retirement plans; health and welfare benefit plan issues ranging from insurance arrangements to self-funding of health and other welfare benefits; fiduciary and trust-related issues; funding of employee benefit plans; and litigation matters involving employee benefit plans.
- Public, private and tax-exempt companies call on Ed for representation with respect to executive compensation issues such as stock option plans; non-qualified deferred compensation plans; consulting arrangements; severance arrangements; employee contracts; golden parachute tax issues; proxy disclosure; and insider trading.
- Ed represents executives in employment and severance negotiations, providing counseling in respect to benefits and securities law implications. Accordion Toggle
Boards, Memberships & Certifications
- American Bar Association, Taxation Section
Publications, Presentations & Recognitions
Presentations
- “Uncharted Seas: ‘Pay or Play’ Penalties & Litigation Risk under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” (moderator) Schiff Hardin LLP Webinar (Mar. 20, 2013)
Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers (2009, 2012-2024)
- Illinois Leading Lawyer, Law Bulletin’s Illinois Leading Lawyers Network (2007-2021)
- Illinois Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters (2006-2009, 2011-2018) Accordion Toggle
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Education
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, JD, 1979Vanderbilt University, BS, 1976