Andrew Stumpff is a long-time employee benefits and executive compensation law practitioner. He was previously a partner of the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he focused on the employee benefits aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as on the fiduciary rules governing transactions and relationships between financial firms and pension and retirement plans. Earlier in his career, Mr. Stumpff served as an Assistant Branch Chief in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel's Employee Benefits and Exempt Organizations Division, where he helped oversee national employee benefits litigation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and was named a Michigan Super Lawyer for 2010 in the field of employee benefits/ERISA.  He is a former co-chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. Currently Mr. Stumpff teaches Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation at the University of Michigan Law School and in the University of Alabama Law School LL.M in Taxation program.  He has published widely in the benefits field, and is the author of a law school casebook, "Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation," published in 2011 by Foundation Press. Mr. Stumpff received an A.B. in Mathematics from Washington University in 1983 and a J.D. in 1986 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Article Editor of the Michigan Law Review.