Extensive experience counseling and representing employers with regards to employee benefit and employment law matters
Employment law areas include hiring, executive employment agreements, worker classification, FMLA, wage and hour, vacation and PTO policies and other HR policies, employment discrimination claims, reductions in force and other group and individual employment termination matters
Employee benefit areas include qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, medical, dental, disability, life and other welfare plans, severance plans and retention plans
Represent employers in matters with federal and state agencies, including the Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Internal Revenue Service and PBGC
Former Chair of Corporate Finance & Transactions Group

Representative Experience

Served as Senior Counsel for a major financial institution
Extensive Mergers & Acquisitions experience with respect to HR matters - employee benefit plans and employment law (agreements, due diligence, negotiation, benefit plan and employee integration)
Drafts/negotiates executive employment agreements, general employment contracts, severance agreements, retention agreements, confidential information, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
Drafts benefit plan documents, summary plan descriptions and other plan materials, employee handbooks and employee communication materials
Counsels corporate clients and plan administrators on retirement and welfare benefit plan matters such as design, documentation, administration and IRS and DOL correction programs