Overview
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.