Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Group advises and counsels employers and executives of closely held and public entities, as well as tax-exempt organizations, on a wide range of matters, including:

• Tax, legal and economic issues arising out of establishing, maintaining and terminating 401(k) and other employee pension plans
• Development and implementation of executive compensation arrangements, including deferred compensation, stock options, stock purchase and other equity based compensation and incentive plans that address long-term and short-term corporate objectives
• Negotiation and preparation of executive employment contracts and termination/severance arrangements
• Design and administration of health, welfare and other fringe benefit plans, and their compliance with ever-increasing regulation under ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA (including medical privacy and security rules) and other laws
• Plan mergers, spin-offs and terminations
• Evaluation of service providers
• Employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions, including transition issues and post-closing benefit structures, pension and retiree medical liabilities, severance, golden parachute and stock conversion issues
• ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans)

In addition to our representation of employers, the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Group attorneys counsel and represent fiduciaries of employee benefit plans, such as trustees and plan administrators, on issues that arise concerning their legal responsibilities and plan matters. The firm also represents acquirers and targets in the acquisition and disposition of businesses, and investment funds that seek capital from employee benefit plans but want to minimize the potential liability related to benefit plan investors.

Neal Gerber Eisenberg is recognized as a leading law firm in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (recommended in “Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits”).