Cremeithius M. Riggins

• Advised on employee benefits plans, compensation arrangements, and compliance issues in mergers and acquisitions and related corporate transactions.
• Assisted with evaluating, assessing, and managing of pension plan qualified domestic relations orders and pension plan investments.
• Advised on plan design and compliance of regulatory requirements of retirement plans including 401(k) plan restatements and amendments.
• Assisted non-profit organization executive with the implementation of a split-dollar life insurance plan.

Cremeithius M. Riggins is an associate in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. He focuses his practice on matters related to health and welfare, qualified and non-qualified plans, and executive compensation. Cremeithius also provides practical advice and offers guidance to public companies and private employers on compensation issues and compliance concerns relating to mergers and acquisitions and other related corporate transactions.

Before joining the firm, Cremeithius was an extern for the Georgia Justice Project, and a procurement assistant for the City of Atlanta. He earned his J.D. and a J.D. Business Law Certificate from The University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he was a Berkeley Center for Law and Business Scholar and served as a senior article editor for the Berkeley Business Law Journal. Cremeithius earned his B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from Morehouse College where he was the president of the Morehouse-Spelman Prelaw Society.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• University of California, Berkeley (J.D., 2020)
• Morehouse College (B.A., 2017)
• Atlanta Technical College (A.A.S., 2015)

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