Robert K. Winger
Senior Of Counsel
Bob Winger acts as legal counsel to mid- and small-sized closely held businesses, providing a full range of commercial services with an emphasis on corporate, LLC and tax planning services, including income, gift, estate and property tax and succession planning. His clients span industries ranging from professional services, healthcare and real estate development to printing and agribusiness.
In addition to his work as general counsel, Bob focuses on tax, and employee benefits. He leads the firm’s Tax and Employee Benefits Team and is a member of the Business Team. He has significant experience with the design, implementation, and administration of retirement and health\welfare benefit plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, from prototype to individually designed plans and from basic 401(k) plans to complex ESOPs. He has developed a wide variety of stock incentive and deferred compensation plans and assisted numerous clients correct operational errors in plans through various governmental correction programs.
Bob assists clients with the choice, design and funding of entities, reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, redemptions and liquidations and with the development of exit strategies for business owners and leveraged buy-outs.
Bob develops creative solutions for clients’ unique needs, first taking time to understand a client’s goals, then drawing from his experiences and expertise. Current on the latest trends and willing to proceed through unchartered waters, he will not recommend a course with significant risk or uncertainty without fully apprising the client of those risks and the potential downstream costs and impacts that may be involved.
Bob is a frequent presenter and author on matters encountered in his practice, including choice of entity, drafting issues, tax legislation, Affordable Care Act, COBRA, retirement plans, executive compensation and succession planning. He has authored articles or been a presenter for the Portland Business Journal, Oregon State Bar, Oregon Professional Liability Fund, Willamette University College of Law, regional CPA firms, brokerage firms and clients. He also has developed software to assist in the automation of legal services.
Bob is married to his high school sweetheart and has two adult children. He is a woodworker, fisherman and wildlife enthusiast.
Admissions
Oregon, 1973
U.S. District Court District of Oregon, 1973
U.S. Tax Court, 1976
U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
Education
University of Oregon School of Law, J.D., 1973; Oregon Law Review, Editorial Board, 1972-1973
University of Oregon, B.A., History, 1970; Phi Beta Kappa in Junior Year
