Join partners from McDermott’s Employee Benefits team as they discuss the impact of the recently passed SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. With over 90 changes to retirement plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), this webinar...more
1/13/2023
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403(b) Plans ,
Automatic Enrollment ,
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Defined Benefit Plans ,
Early Retirement Distributions ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Contributions ,
Employer Contributions ,
Hardship Distributions ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Individual Retirement Account (IRA) ,
Required Minimum Distributions ,
Retirement ,
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Retirement Plan Providers ,
Roth IRA ,
SECURE Act ,
Student Loan Benefit Programs ,
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McDermott Will & Emery’s Michael B. Kimberly, Sarah P. Hogarth and Andrew C. Liazos, are co-counsel on a petition for certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC)....more
McDermott Will & Emery’s Andrew C. Liazos, Michael B. Kimberly and Charlie Seidell recently filed an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC). McDermott...more
McDermott Will & Emery invites you to a webinar for an in-depth discussion on the US Department of Labor’s initial cybersecurity guidance for retirement plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and what...more
6/8/2021
/ Benefit Plan Sponsors ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Cyber Policies ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
ERISA Litigation ,
Fiduciary ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
New Guidance ,
Preemption ,
Retirement Plan ,
Retirement Plan Providers ,
Risk Assessment ,
Vendors ,
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) raises serious concerns for employers of all shapes and sizes, across all industries and in every business sector. As the impact of COVID-19 continues to grow, many employers are faced with new...more
The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), Fidelity and McDermott invite you to join your peers and colleagues for breakfast and an interactive discussion around hot topics in benefits and compensation. Areas of focus will...more
In a presentation at McDermott’s Employment and Employee Benefits Forum, Andrew Liazos discussed areas of focus for Section 162(m) and third-party loan funding for employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs). He also provided...more
3/7/2019
/ Binding Contractual Rules ,
Covered Employees ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Stock Purchase Plans ,
Excise Tax ,
Executive Compensation ,
Final Rules ,
Grandfathering Rules ,
Hedging ,
Loans ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Section 162(m) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Deferral ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Third Party Funding ,
Third Party Lenders ,
Wage and Hour
In a presentation at McDermott’s Employment and Employee Benefits Forum, our lawyers discuss the patchwork of state and local laws surrounding pay equity for similarly situated employees doing the same job. Particularly in...more
3/6/2019
/ Best Practices ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Executive Compensation ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Andrew Liazos presented on 162(m) deduction limitations and transition rules at NYU’s 77th Institute on Federal Taxation. Amongst other topics, he discussed key changes for employers under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the...more
“Top hat plans” have many attractive features, but a new court decision is a reminder that top hat plan participants have limited protections under ERISA – and that assets held in a rabbi trust are not protected from the...more
In Depth -
Additional flexibility to use Section 409A exemptions -
..Expanded availability of the rules for transaction-based compensation for stock rights and incentive stock options. The final regulations allow...more
6/24/2016
/ Beneficiaries ,
Debt Collection ,
Deferred Compensation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Stock Purchase Plans ,
Employee Stock Purchase Rights ,
Employment Contract ,
Hiring & Firing ,
IRS ,
Safe Harbors ,
Section 409A ,
Severance Pay
On June 21, the IRS issued long awaited proposed regulations under Section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code that affect a broad range of compensation arrangements at tax exempt organizations. If a compensation arrangement is...more
6/23/2016
/ Compensation Agreements ,
Deferred Compensation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Income Taxes ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Severance Agreements ,
Severance Pay ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Taxable Income ,
Vesting