About

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Keeping pace with the changes and complexities of the regulatory environment, we help plan sponsors and service providers mitigate risk and advance critical HR objectives. With comprehensive service offerings, we consider your distinct needs and concerns in developing or modifying benefits plans and executive compensation arrangements. When it helps you, we form multidisciplinary teams — often comprising colleagues from our corporate, employment, health, insurance, investment management and litigation practice groups. Through these collaborations, we identify creative resolutions to our clients’ most vexing problems and uncover opportunities that might otherwise go unseen. Whether you’re a benefits plan fiduciary, a government or other tax-exempt employer, a privately held company or a public company, we provide practical counsel and customized strategies to address your specific challenges and opportunities.

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - California: Los Angeles & Surrounds

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What the Team is Known For

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is noted for its wealth of expertise in employee benefits issues. The team handles a variety of matters on behalf of plan sponsors, service providers and fiduciaries. The members offer expertise in ERISA compliance as well as ESOP transactions. They regularly represent plan sponsors and fiduciaries in relation to IRS and Department of Labor investigations and audits.

Work Highlights

  • Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP served as ERISA counsel to Tetra Tech in relation to its 401(k) plan.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Fred Reish
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Fred Reish
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Fred Reish is noted as a strong ERISA specialist in the employee benefits and executive compensation space.

Fred is very plugged in so he has a broad perspective and great overview of client requirements. 

Fred is one of the best in the space for tax qualified retirement plans advice.

Fred is incredibly knowledgeable. He has great insights on what is happening and his advice is really reliable.

Summer Conley
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Summer Conley
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Summer Conley is leader of the firm's benefits and executive compensation group. She advises her clients on a variety of employee benefits matters including 401(k) and health and welfare plans, as well as COBRA and HIPAA-related issues.

Summer is a go-to lawyer for all things benefits.

Yana Johnson
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Yana Johnson
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Yana Johnson is sought out for her skillful handling of executive compensation matters.

Yana was wonderful to work with; very knowledgeable and timely.

Ranked Lawyers at
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California: Los Angeles & Surrounds

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Fred Reish
2
Fred Reish
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Band 2
Summer Conley
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Summer Conley
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Band 3

California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surro

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Yana Johnson
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Yana Johnson
3
Band 3

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