Practice Areas & Industries: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the increasing complexity of the law regulating employee benefits spawned a practice dedicated to serving you and keeping you informed of the tax, labor and business aspects of compensating and providing welfare and retirement benefits to executives and other employees.

Our Clients

On a periodic basis, all entities with employees require advice and assistance with ERISA and the other laws and regulations affecting employee benefits. The employee benefits practice group represents a diverse group of clients that range in size from small emerging businesses to large, publicly traded, multi-national corporations. Such clients include a variety of entities such as regular "C" corporations, tax-exempt organizations, non profit entities, sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability partnerships and companies, and local and state government units.

Services Available

Our Practice

The employee benefits practice group provides assistance in the following areas:

• 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans (including age-weighted profit sharing plans), employee stock ownershipplans, cash balance plans, and retirement plans
• 403(b) plans for tax exempt and governmental agencies
• Welfare benefit plans, including severance plans, cafeteria plans and health care plans, including issuesrelating to COBRA, FMLA, USERAA and HIPAA
• Leveraged acquisitions through the use of employee stock ownership plans
• Deferred and executive compensation arrangements, including supplemental retirement arrangements, stock-based
• incentive compensation plans, and rabbi trusts
• 457(b) and 457(f) plans for tax exempt and governmental entities
• Termination of existing plans, including issues relating to asset reversions, mergers and spinoffs
• The impact on employee benefits of merger, acquisition and financing transactions
• The day-to-day administration of plans, including disposition of benefit claims, and compliance with statutory,regulatory, administrative and judicial requirements
• Submissions and negotiations with governmental agencies in connection with administrative compliance procedures