Michael J Canan

Practice Areas

ERISA and Employee Benefits

ESOPs

Taxation

Affordable Care Act

Professional Memberships

American College of Employee Benefits Counsel

Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance and Journal of Deferred Compensation

American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries, former Chair

The ESOP Association (National Association and New South Chapter)

National Center for Employee Ownership

The Florida Bar, Tax Section

American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee

State Bar of California

Publications

Qualified Retirement Plans, West Publishing Co., annual editions for more than 35 years; Co-Author, Employee Fringe and Welfare Benefit Plans, West Publishing Co., annual editions for more than 30 years

Education

Experience

Mike Canan, with over 45 years' experience, focuses his practice on all phases of qualified retirement plan work, with emphasis on the establishment and maintenance of ESOPs; ERISA compliance and plan design; controlled group and affiliated service group issues; IRS and Department of Labor administrative problem resolution; and nonqualified deferred compensation.

Further, Mike has also been involved in numerous IRS audits regarding retirement plans and other employee benefits, including tax promoter audits regarding employee benefit matters. He has also done considerable work with employers with regard to health plans under the Affordable Care Act, and has written a book on the subject.

Mike is licensed in both California and Florida, and has been Florida board certified in Tax Law since 1983.