ERISA, Executive Compensation, and Employee Benefits attorneys at Constangy represent public companies, large and closely-held private companies, tax-exempt organizations, and the fiduciaries that oversee those entities’ employee benefit plans. We understand both the subtleties and complexities of incentives in the workplace, and we provide a practical, integrated approach in helping employers manage them.

Our broad experience helps companies answer questions in areas including: qualified retirement plans, executive compensation, fiduciary advice, mergers and acquisitions, welfare benefit plans, and ERISA litigation. Clients have the advantage of our lawyers protecting their interests and maximizing tax advantages. We appreciate the work that goes into creating and maintaining incentives in the workplace, and we have the technical skills and big-picture perspective to help keep an employer’s employee benefit plans operating at peak efficiency.

Constangy lawyers counsel plan sponsors and service providers (such as trustees, recordkeeping agents, insurers, and third party administrators) to ensure operational compliance of plans with the Internal Revenue Code. We are keenly aware of the roles of all parties and work with clients to administer plans in a manner which is cost effective and compliant with regulations set by the DOL and IRS.

Where Executive Compensation is concerned, at Constangy, we partner with Boards of Directors, Compensation Committees, and the human resources teams that serve those directors and committees as they seek to provide a stable, productive environment for company leaders and employees.

Taking a “real world,” practical approach to clients’ legal challenges, we make it a point to learn about our clients’ businesses to better understand and serve their interests. We communicate with our clients in plain English. “Legalese” is not spoken at Constangy. And, of course, our lawyers are accessible 24–7.

ERISA, Executive Compensation, and Employee Benefits Capabilities

In short, Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP can help you and your company with any of the problems – or opportunities–you face in the world of ERISA, Executive Compensation, and Employee Benefits. We are creative, responsive, experienced – and, we get results.

• ESOPs

• Pension and profit-sharing plans

• 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and 457(f) plans

• Retirement plan self-audits

• Fiduciary audits

• Welfare plans

• Executive compensation arrangements

• 409A deferred compensation

• ERISA issues, in the context of M&A

• Arbitration and mediations

• ERISA and benefits litigation

• Structuring of VCOC and REOCs to allow pension plan investment

• Fiduciary training

• HR training regarding plan administration and regulatory compliance

• VEBA structure, bylaws, and operation

• Administrative proceedings, audits and litigation initiated by the DOL and the IRS

About Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP

Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP has counseled employers on labor and employment law matters, exclusively, since 1946. A “Go To” Law Firm in Corporate Counsel and Fortune Magazine, it represents Fortune 500 corporations and smaller companies across the country. Its attorneys are consistently rated as top lawyers in their practice areas by sources such as Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, and Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States. More than 125 lawyers partner with clients to provide cost-effective legal services and sound preventive advice to enhance the employer-employee relationship.

In addition to ERISA, Executive Compensation, and Employee Benefits work, Constangy represents companies in employment litigation and class actions, labor relations, affirmative action, occupational safety and health, business immigration, workers’ compensation, and wage and hour law. Visit www.constangy.com or phone 866.843.9555.