Gilbert J. Weiner, JD, Managing Director

Gil is the Managing Director of Cherry, Bekaert & Holland’s Compensation and Benefits Solutions Practice. As an attorney with extensive benefits and compensation experience, Gil focuses his practice on meeting the human capital and benefits needs of the Firm’s diverse client base. Based out of the Washington office, he assists employers throughout the Southeast in optimizing their employee, executive and director compensation and benefit arrangements to achieve tax efficiencies; ensure competitive practices; mitigate business, fiscal and tax risk; and improve their potential post-transaction market positions.

Prior to joining CB&H, Gil was director of the southeast compensation and benefits practice of KPMG, and served as national co-chairman of their compensation and benefits transaction services group. He has also served as a senior manager in the compensation and benefits consulting practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and as the tax and benefits counsel with oversight of international tax, legal and compliance activities for a $35 billion petroleum corporation.

Gil’s core technical expertise lies in the efficient design and maintenance of compensation and benefits programs, golden parachute mitigation planning and compliance, and transaction and integration planning related to human resources, compensation and benefits.

Gil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeastern University and a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk Law School. He has studied at Boston University, Harvard University, Temple University and the University of Exeter (U.K.).

Gil is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer at national and regional Tax Executive Institutes; Georgia, Florida and Triad (North Carolina) Tax Forums; international employee benefits conferences; bankers trust conferences; and numerous other organization and group venues. He has appeared on radio and television programs as a commentator on tax and employee benefit and compensation topics, and has published several articles in industry publications.