Retirement Plan Sponsors

Offering a retirement plan comes with significant responsibility. Whether you are starting a new business, purchasing an existing business, or responsible for employee benefits matters, you may want help identifying and managing issues and risks that arise when establishing or operating an employee benefit plan.

Fiduciary Law Center delivers comprehensive and actionable solutions to minimize burdens and maximize benefits associated with your retirement plans. We can help you maintain or achieve legal compliance, while still allowing you to further your business goals and navigate structural challenges. Our attorneys regularly work with businesses, governments, tax-exempt organizations, of all sizes to design, implement, maintain, restructure, and terminate retirement programs.

We routinely counsel plan sponsors on ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction issues, including providing advice on plan corrections, employer securities, prohibited transaction exemptions, investment performance, service provider arrangements, fiduciary insurance policies, plan governance, reporting and disclosure requirements, and payment of plan expenses. We assist our clients in establishing and maintaining benefit committees, committee charters, investment policy statements and administrative contracts and procedures.

We guide clients in the use of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), both leveraged and non-leveraged, to transfer ownership of their businesses. Further, we help clients maneuver the complex tax, securities and accounting rules pertaining to executive compensation arrangements, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and restricted stock units and other forms of equity-based compensation plan.

Fiduciary Law Center offers comprehensive and actionable solutions to retirement plan sponsors, including: