Alden is the Practice Group Leader of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. He advises corporate, not-for-profit, governmental, and individual clients on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits issues, including qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, stock and stock-based compensation arrangements, ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction issues, benefit-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and health and welfare plans.

Alden represented the Romney administration in connection with the historic 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act, and he has testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the subject of health care reform. He is a resource to one of the nation's premier tax and legal publishers, Tax Management, Inc./Bureau of National Affairs.

Recognitions & Awards

· Best Lawyers in America: Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (1995 - 2013)

· Chambers USA: Nationwide - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (2010 - 2013)

· Chambers USA: Massachusetts (Band 1) - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (2006 - 2013)

· Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Employee Benefits/ERISA (2006 - 2012)

· Who's Who in American Law

· Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent

Professional & Community Involvement

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