About

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Winston & Strawn’s Illinois EBEC attorneys focus on a wide range of matters relating to employee benefits and executive compensation plans and arrangements. Our attorneys advise corporations, institutions, boards of directors, private equity firms, and executives on all legal, design, drafting, negotiation, and compliance aspects of executive compensation matters. Winston also advise corporations, firms, organizations, fiduciaries, executives, administrators, governmental entities, and financial institutions on innovative and traditional employee retirement and health and welfare benefits programs. In addition, our attorneys advise clients on executive compensation disclosure matters, including in connection with initial public offerings, proxy filings, and other periodic reporting obligations and Section 16 filings. Winston’s level of experience and more than 50 years of involvement in the EBEC field have given our attorneys a deep understanding of the evolution of benefits law, innovative trends in employee benefit plan design, and the market for executive compensation.

Additionally, our EBEC partners serve as adjunct professors of law at Northwestern University School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, and Loyola University Law School.

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What the Team is Known For

Winston & Strawn LLP has a renowned team deeply experienced in all aspects of employee benefits, including health and welfare and retirement plans. It has noted capabilities in HIPAA compliance and ERISA litigation. The firm acts for clients in manufacturing, healthcare and hospitality, among other sectors.

Work Highlights

  • Winston & Strawn LLP continued to provide day-to-day fiduciary advice to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in connection with its oversight of pension and 401(k) plans, with approximately $13 billion in assets.

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Notable Practitioners

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Joe Adams
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Joe Adams
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Joe Adams has first-class expertise in matters such as the design and operation of 401(k) and ESOP plans.

Joe Adams is responsive, articulates his thoughts and is patient in assisting us to understand the facts.

Joe is very good at taking a complicated area and being able to discuss and explain it to those not well versed in the intricacies of ERISA and employee benefit law.

Susan M Nash
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Susan M Nash
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Susan Nash is respected for advising clients on employee benefits matters including retirement and health plans.

She's extremely intelligent, extremely responsive and always available whenever we need her.

Susan is very responsive and proactively looks for ways to help her clients be good stewards of finite resources.

Susan Nash is an extraordinary health and group welfare benefits plans and contracts expert.

Amy Gordon
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Amy Gordon
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Amy Gordon is noted for her experience in health and welfare benefits plans. Her practice also encompasses retirement and health and welfare plans.

She's very well qualified and I can't say enough good things about her.

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Joe Adams
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Joe Adams
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Susan M Nash
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Susan M Nash
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Amy Gordon
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Amy Gordon
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