Steven W. Rabitz is a Partner and Co-Chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group at Dechert LLP focusing on executive compensation matters for public and private companies and the fiduciary responsibility, prohibited transaction and funding rules of ERISA. He was named a member to the “Hall of Fame” of Legal 500’s “Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional” category, is regularly featured in Chambers USA for his work in employee benefits and executive compensation and in Best Lawyers for his ERISA-related practice, in addition to being ranked in Super Lawyers. He was named in 2021 to LawDragon’s leading corporate employment lawyers in America and was also listed as one of the top 20 practitioners in the country in the area of employee benefits and ERISA in LawDragon’s 2019 “Most Powerful Corporate Employment Lawyers.”

Mr. Rabitz’s writing on current legal topics and issues has appeared in numerous publications, including, The Investment Lawyer, Tax Management Compensation Journal, Pension & Benefits Daily, Derivatives: Financial Products Report, The Hedge Fund Law Report, Tax Notes, and the Florida Tax Review and he has been quoted in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Hedge Fund Law Report, International Business Times and Law 360. In 2015, he received the Burton Award for excellence in legal writing. He also co-edits the third edition of the leading treatise on ERISA Fiduciary Law.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Rabitz pioneered and led the ERISA, executive compensation and benefits legal function at Lehman Brothers and served in a similar capacity at Barclays Capital and also worked as part of a dedicated team of ERISA and compensation lawyers at Goldman Sachs. Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Rabitz was a partner and chair of the employee benefits and executive compensation department at a national leading law firm. Mr. Rabitz received his law degree, cum laude, from New York University, where he also received an LL.M in Taxation and is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University.