Of Counsel
Jonathan Boyles is a senior lawyer in the firm’s employee-benefits practice. He has focused on employee benefits and related tax issues for more than 20 years, including serving as chief in-house counsel to a multi-billion-dollar multiemployer pension plan.
Jonathan counsels clients on a wide array of complex employee-benefit matters, including ERISA’s fiduciary obligations, plan design issues, and reporting and disclosure requirements. His practice has a special emphasis on investment-management issues for benefit plans, multiemployer plan compliance matters, and executive-compensation issues for nonprofits. He has drafted plan amendments and determination letter submissions regarding every major Congressional pension act since the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
In 2011, Jonathan was recognized by the National LGBT Bar Association as one of the “Best 40 Lawyers Under 40.”
Jonathan received his Juris Doctorate degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2000, where he was Managing Editor of The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law’s First Annual Review of Gender and Sexuality Law. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. Jonathan is an Eagle Scout.
Jonathan may be reached at