Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

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Provided by Dickinson Wright PLLC

Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice is distinguished by the following:

• We represent a significant number of the world's top automotive suppliers in all aspects of their employee benefit programs, including qualified retirement, welfare benefits and executive compensation plans.

• We counsel benefit plan fiduciaries on fiduciary duty best practices and our attorneys serve as legal counsel to many retirement plan investment and administrative committees.

• We assist clients, including sophisticated private equity funds, with the benefits review and hands-on transition work integrating or deconstructing employer sponsored benefit programs based on the structure of the business deal.

• We counsel employers on all aspects of US health care reform, including compliance with market reforms, new taxes and fees, employer coverage mandate for full-time employees, reporting obligations, elimination of coverage and private exchange options, rules on wellness programs and implications for individuals, etc.

• We represent many employers, including public companies, in non-qualified deferred compensation and equity incentive plans, including counseling compensation committees on their tax, ERISA and securities law obligations.​