ERISA is complex, but we’re here to help. Our clients trust our employee benefits & ERISA attorneys for smart advice and a practical approach to even their most complicated benefits challenges.
ERISA creates a challenging and time-consuming landscape. We help business executives, fiduciaries, and HR leaders who need compliance guidance – devising long-term plans for avoiding legal problems.
Our deep-seated experience in employee benefits law is sufficient for any business or corporation, and we’re ready to work fluently with any officer or executive regardless of their level of ERISA comfort. We have the veteran knowledge and bench depth it takes to avoid mishaps in the precarious EB/ERISA minefield.
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Our approach includes:
- Practical advice couched in your business objectives
- Benefit plan strategy and design from inception to de-risking, termination, and beyond
- Getting to know the ins and outs of your company (and industry) so that our judgment calls are always made shrewdly, and our advice is situated in context
- Ease of communication between our most experienced attorneys and your most senior business leaders, cutting through the legalese and getting to the heart of what’s required
- Strategizing proactively to head off litigation before it happens
- Flexibility and discretion in our pricing, offering the same experience you would find in larger law firms’ regulatory or transaction teams, but with fee arrangements that provide better value for the client
ERISA is only one part of the picture. Employee benefits and executive compensation issues are affected by a complex entanglement of laws: tax rules, corporate regulation, securities, labor law, and beyond. Our attorneys adopt a whole-picture approach.
Experience includes:
- ERISA counseling
- Preemption
- Compliance
- Reporting
- Disclosure
- Drafting and filing of required notices
- Fiduciary requirements
- Health plan requirements
- Benefit plan strategy and design
- Audit representation & advice (including IRS audits & corrections)
- Federal agency relations (DOL, IRS, etc.)
- Class action defense
- De-risking
- Requirements for pension funding / pension plans
- Plan governance
