Martin J Moderson

Practice Areas

Mr. Moderson has more than 30 years experience exclusively in the employee benefits area and is the chair of Dentons' US Pensions, Benefits and Executive Compensation practice.

He works with employers (privately and publicly held, governmental, and church) in designing, implementing, and maintaining various employee benefit programs. Mr. Moderson frequently advises clients on participant dispute resolution, including outside a plan's claims process. His employee benefits experience includes qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, executive compensation, equity plans, and welfare plans. He has also assisted multinational companies with select international benefits matters.

Mr. Moderson specializes in providing advice to ERISA-governed plan investment and administrative committees. He regularly advises committees on their fiduciary duties under ERISA. Years of attending committee meetings as counsel to the plan's fiduciaries have added to his understanding of plan investment and administrative opportunities. In light of the recent class action fee litigation, Mr. Moderson has guided clients through the restructuring and renegotiation of fee arrangements with outside vendors to ensure satisfaction of committees' fiduciary obligations by having the most advantageous arrangement for plan participants and beneficiaries.