Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Our advice focuses on:

• Plan design, implementation, and documentation
• Compliance with applicable IRS, DOL, and PBGC regulations
• Nondiscrimination testing
• Effective plan administration that can eliminate potentially costly mistakes
• Adapting plans to  employers’ changing financial conditions and business needs, including changes necessitated by mergers and acquisitions
• Compliance with ERISA fiduciary duty standards and plan asset management requirements
• Design and implementation of ESOPs and stock bonus plans and related transactions
• Consultation regarding the specialized issues involving tax-deferred plans of government and non-profit employers
• Voluntary correction of plan design and operational failures
• Defending our clients in litigation and administrative actions claiming alleged violations of plan provisions or regulatory requirements
• Management of legal exposure arising under the myriad and complex laws affecting health and welfare benefit plans, including PPACA, HIPAA, and COBRA
• Termination of defined benefit, defined compensation, welfare benefit, and executive compensation plans
• Strategies surrounding the structure and implementation of equity and other forms of executive compensation programs