Daniel L. "Danny" Johnson, Jr.
Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Danny Johnson represents large and mid-size businesses and professional service firms regarding the implementation and administration of their employee benefit plans and compensation arrangements.
Danny has more than 35 years of experience with a wide range of employee benefit and executive employment matters, including public company clients in connection with their executive compensation programs and dealing with golden parachute severance issues that arise in merger, acquisition, divestiture, and corporate finance transactions. He is regularly involved with complex transactions involving ESOPs, including ESOP implementation and finance transactions, ESOP administration issues, and transactions involving the sale of ESOP-owned companies. Danny also helps his diverse clients with administrative proceedings, investigations and audits by the Internal Revenue Service, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the United States Department of Labor.
Overview
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 1985
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BSBA, graduated 1981
- North Carolina, 1985
- North Carolina, 1985
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 1985
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BSBA, graduated 1981
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus

- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Charlotte (2026)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Charlotte (2024)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Charlotte (2021)
- Litigation - ERISA, Charlotte (2020)
- Litigation - ERISA, Charlotte (2017)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Litigation - ERISA
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Securities Regulation
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