Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

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Provided by Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP

Calfee's nationally recognized Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice group advises and represents publicly and privately held corporations, nonprofits, banks and trust departments, and government entities in all phases of designing and administering employee benefit and retirement programs.

In addition to extensive experience with tax-qualified retirement and employee health and welfare benefit plans, the group also has a significant focus on the design and implementation of sophisticated executive compensation programs, ESOPs, merger and acquisition matters, and ERISA litigation.

Representative experience includes (but is not limited to):

Executive Compensation

• ​Employment and consulting contracts
• Incentive compensation/bonus plans
• Deferred compensation and stock appreciation rights

Qualified Retirement Plans

• ​Pension, profit sharing, stock bonus plans and 403(b) plans
• Cross tested plans
• Cash balance plans

Welfare Benefits

• ​Flexible benefit plans
• PPOs, medical and similar plans
• Self-insured arrangements

Regulatory Compliance

• ​Regulatory interpretation
• Fiduciary compliance
• Reporting and disclosure

Acquisition and Divesture

• ​Transaction structuring
• Compliance and liability analysis
• Multi-employer plans

ESOPs

• Alternative equity transfer techniques
• Analysis of stock redemption issues
• Assistance in obtaining appraisals and financing

ERISA Litigation

• ​​Disputed benefit claims
• Breach of fiduciary duty claims
• Discrimination claims under ERISA Section 510