HunterMaclean’s
ERISA and employee benefits practice group advises public, private, taxable,
and tax-exempt clients on a wide variety of employee benefit issues related to
the design, documentation, and administration of all forms of employee benefit
plans and executive compensation programs, including pension plans, 401(k)
plans, 403(b) plans, ESOPs, welfare benefit plans, stock option plans,
incentive compensation programs, and post-retirement plans.
We also
represent plan administrators and investment fiduciaries, advising them on a
wide range of issues related to their fiduciary and administrative duties with
respect to their employee benefit plans. We have extensive experience advising
plan sponsors and plan fiduciaries with respect to plan investment activities,
including negotiating investment management agreements and reviewing investment
vehicles.
We advise clients on
golden parachute, executive and equity-based compensation, and employee benefit
plan issues that arise in negotiating mergers and other acquisitions or
dispositions. We represent clients in working on the wide range of difficult
post-merger or other business combination or disposition issues related to
integrating different benefit plans, structures, and compensation policies and
practices or breaking-up of such plans, structures, policies, and practices.