Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

•    Known nationally for first-rate benefits/compensation advice
•    Handle counseling, deal support, executive compensation
•    Advise on retirement plans, welfare benefits, fringe benefits, plan investment matters
•    Executive compensation for corporate management and executives
•    Strong transactional practice, advising on benefits aspects of corporate M&A and private equity deals
•    Significant advising of employee-owned businesses and ESOPs
•    Represent large employers (including publicly traded companies, privately held businesses, employee-owned enterprises) throughout the nation on benefits matters
•    National benefits and compensation counsel to large employers; a “destination resource” Comprehensive employee benefits and ERISA support, from design, drafting, and implementation of retirement plans to welfare/fringe benefit plans to health benefits-related work to ERISA litigation and IRS and DOL representation
•    Advise on equity compensation and deferred compensation plans. Act for both management and individual directors on employment agreements, exits, severance agreements, and bonuses
•    We understand the nuances of non-profit and tax-exempt organizations, and have advised them for many years
•    Counsel ESOP-owned companies, and advise on transactions involving ESOPs, including financings
•    Advise on benefits-related due diligence in large transactions and bankruptcies, in which plan issues arise

Clark, Jonathan A

Kadlec, Michael A.

Rudolph, Andrew J