Mike Melbinger
Lead Partner and Global Head
Winstron & Strawn

Mike Melbinger is the lead partner and global head of Winston & Strawn’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice group. Mr. Melbinger works out of the firm's Chicago office and practices exclusively in the area of executive compensation and employee retirement and welfare benefit issues for corporations, boards of directors, partnerships, executives, and fiduciaries.

Mr. Melbinger has worked extensively on designing and implementing stock and non-stock based executive compensation and benefit programs for public and private companies (including start-up ventures). He has designed and drafted employment contracts, severance agreements, parachute agreements, and a variety of executive compensation arrangements. He advises boards of directors, compensation committees, and senior executives and legal departments in these matters.
Mr. Melbinger also has extensive experience with the design, operation, and auditing of employers’ retirement and health and welfare benefit plans. He has extensive experience advising fiduciaries in the proper discharge of their duties, drafting investment management agreements, and establishing structures and strategies to protect fiduciaries and plan sponsors from liability for investment and other benefit plan decisions.
Mr. Melbinger also handles employee benefit litigation matters and the employee benefit aspects of change-in-control and initial public offering transactions.
His representative clients include The Boeing Company, Discover Financial Services, Sky Financial Group, Outrigger Hotels Hawaii, C.R. Bard, Inc., Cabot Microelectronics, Fortune Brands, IPSCO, Inc., the New York Stock Exchange, and Utilities, Inc.

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