Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Miles & Stockbridge’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice works to ensure that employers’ health and retirement benefit plans and executive compensation strategies satisfy all applicable tax, legal and competitive standards. We counsel clients with operations throughout the United States and in foreign countries and are familiar with the regulatory requirements that apply to their diverse benefit and compensation plans. 

The primary focus of our benefits counsel is proactive analysis of plans to minimize exposure to government agency enforcement actions and employee complaints. Our clients cover the spectrum of businesses, includes public and private companies, and range in size from global multinationals to small employers and entrepreneurs. 

Our advice includes:

• Plan design, implementation and documentation
• Compliance with applicable IRS, DOL and PBGC regulations
• Non-discrimination testing
• Effective plan administration that can eliminate potentially costly mistakes
• Adapting plans to employers’ changing financial conditions and business needs, including changes necessitated by mergers and acquisitions
• Compliance with ERISA fiduciary duty standards and plan asset management requirements
• Design and implementation of ESOPs and stock bonus plans and related transactions
• Consultation regarding the specialized issues involving tax-deferred plans of government and non-profit employers
• Voluntary correction of plan design and operational failures