Adam B. Snyder

Adam Snyder advises employers, owners, and investors on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. He helps clients navigate benefits compliance questions, correct plan errors, and address tax issues involving Sections 280G and 409A of the Internal Revenue Code. Adam also guides clients through new regulatory guidance, litigation developments, and participant issues, helping them understand their options and make practical decisions. In corporate transactions, he advises on employee benefits and executive compensation issues, identifies benefits-related risks during diligence, and helps develop practical, cost-effective solutions.

Adam’s executive compensation practice includes advising clients on equity compensation, nonqualified deferred compensation, and change-in-control arrangements. He helps clients design and document compensation programs, evaluate performance-based vesting structures, and address related tax compliance issues under Sections 280G and 409A of the Internal Revenue Code. His work also includes preparing Section 280G disclosure materials and assisting with shareholder approval procedures.

Adam also works with clients on qualified retirement plan matters, including plan documents, plan restatements, summary plan descriptions, and corrections of documentary and operational errors through IRS and DOL correction programs.

Prior to joining Smith Gambrell & Russell, Adam worked in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation groups of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP and Fisher & Phillips LLP.

Adam's Practice