Services Provided
Interdisciplinary Counsel
Our attorneys provide interdisciplinary counsel in cooperation with the firm’s employment law group regarding severance plans, retirement buy-out plans, executive employment contracts and matters pertaining to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Such joint efforts also often involve matters related to ERISA litigation issues as well as collective bargaining agreements and union contract benefit issues.
- Reviewing plan documents and employer policies and patterns of practice for legal compliance and providing ancillary assistance in filing required government reports
- Advising and educating executives, plan trustees, compensation committees and administrators on matters related to general plan administrative compliance
- Counseling on fiduciary obligations and liabilities
- Plan restructuring in connection with corporate transactions, including plan mergers, spin-offs and termination
- Counseling plan sponsors and bankruptcy trustees about benefit plan alternatives compliance in bankruptcy, receiverships and other sponsor insolvency situations
- Counseling on legislative issues and the effects of new statutory and regulatory developments
- Representation of our clients before pension and related agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Labor and other regulators in connection with enforcement actions or compliance audits
- Consulting cooperatively with client's benefit plan advisor's, including accountants, benefit plan consultants, trust departments, insurance carriers (and agents and brokers), investment advisors, actuaries, third-party plan administrators and others
- Consulting individuals regarding their 401k plans, IRAs and other retirement plans, both regarding their beneficiary designations and their payout options
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If you have questions regarding our
Pension Plans, Profit Sharing and Employee Benefits practice, please email or call us in Cedar Rapids at (319) 366-7641 or in Coralville at (319) 354-1019.
