Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Travis DeHaven advises clients with all aspects of compensation and benefits matters, including executive compensation design and implementation as well as issues arising under Code Section 409A; employment, severance, and retention agreements; design and legal compliance concerning tax qualified plans and welfare benefits; and issues concerning fiduciary responsibility under ERISA. He has particularly focused on these issues in the context of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. In addition, Travis has assisted as co-counsel on numerous ERISA litigation matters advising clients on the ERISA issues that arise in this context.

Travis serves as counsel to Southern Company and its subsidiaries concerning all employee benefit issues. Other current representations include Milliken & Company and Lord Corporation. He also has served as employee benefits counsel to CKX, Dollar General Corporation, Mirant Corporation, and Chick-fil-A. Specific representations in which Travis has played a key role include the spin-off of Mirant Corporation to shareholders of Southern Company, numerous corporate transactions for Southern Company, numerous corporate transactions for Mirant Corporation while it was a subsidiary of Southern Company, the merger of Illinova Corporation into Dynergy, and the sale of SEMCO Energy to Cap Rock Holding Corporation.

With respect to litigation matters, Travis advised the Plan Administration Committee for the Southern Company Employee Savings Plan on the class action settlement of Mark T. Spivey, individually and on behalf of a class of all others similarly situated v. Southern Company, et al., a stock drop case involving Mirant Corporation stock held by the plan as a dividend after the spin-off of Mirant from Southern. Travis was co-counsel to Murata Electronics North America in International Union of Electronic, Electric, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO, et al. v. Murata Erie North America, Inc., where Murata was successfully defended in a $7 million suit concerning the reversion of excess assets (affirmed at 46 F.3d 1117 (3rd Cir. 1994)). Travis was also co-counsel in Hill v. Atlanta Life Ins. Co., et al., where Atlanta Life Insurance Company was successfully defended in a $250,000 suit concerning executive deferred compensation benefits.

Travis is a frequent speaker on compensation and benefits-related topics and the author of published articles.

Areas of Practice

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Executive Compensation
• Compensation & Benefits Counseling for Employers
• ERISA & Other Employee Benefits Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions/Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

West Practice Categories

Affirmative Action -- Employee, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Business Organizations, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• U of Georgia

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