A. Victor Wray

Qualifications and Career Profile

Victor Wray is Head of the Charlotte Corporate Practice. Mr. Wray concentrates his practice on commercial/corporate transactions, employee benefits, taxation and wealth management matters. He has handled numerous business acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations and commercial transactions. Mr. Wray's employee benefits practice focuses on the design, drafting and administration of retirement, welfare benefit and deferred compensation plans for successful closely held businesses.

Mr. Wray represents a number of closely held businesses, including domestic subsidiaries of Belgian, Swiss and Danish companies. He has extensive experience with employee benefit plans including ERISA plans of all types. He is actively involved in estate planning and probate matters for the owners of closely held businesses.

Lectures and Articles

Mr. Wray has written several articles for the Journal of Taxation dealing with ERISA and executive compensation issues, and has been a frequent speaker at legal and interdisciplinary seminars sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association and other professional groups.

Associations and Committees

Mr. Wray is past chair of the North Carolina State Bar Association Law Practice Management Section Council. He also is a member of the Mecklenburg County Bar, the North Carolina and American Bar Associations, and the Charlotte Estate Planning Council.

Education

Mr. Wray earned his undergraduate degree (B.A., 1965) from Duke University and his law degree (J.D., 1968), with honors, from the University of North Carolina. He was an associate editor of the North Carolina Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.