Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design

Jon Breyfogle

Principal

Mark Lofgren

Principal

David Rogers

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/rogers-david-e.html#full-bio David Rogers is the Managing Partner of Winston’s D.C. Office. He advises clients on the management of a variety of benefit plans, and regularly counsels on executive compensation arrangements. Clients describe him as “very knowledgeable, responsive, and practical” and “recommend David to any client seeking an employee benefits counsel” (Chambers USA).

Katrina McCann

Katrina E. McCann is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Katrina advises a diverse group of clients on a broad spectrum of employee benefits matters, including: counseling clients with respect to the design, drafting, implementation and ongoing qualification of their qualified plans in both the single and multi-employer context, including profit sharing, money purchase, 401(k), ESOP, and defined benefit plans; providing counsel on the establishment, administration and continued legal compliance of health & welfare plans and programs; advising tax-exempt organizations regarding their 403(b) plans and 457 arrangements; creating and advising on non-qualified plans, including deferred compensation and supplemental employee retirement plans; providing technical and practical advice on compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, COBRA, HIPAA, and other laws affecting employee benefit plans, as well as issues concerning plan administration, qualification requirements, correction of plan document failures, fiduciary issues and prohibited transaction issues; routinely working with clients and their service providers, advising on the RFP process, reviewing provider arrangements and collaborating to develop effective and compliant disclosures, government reporting forms and participant communications; analyzing the employee benefits and executive compensation issues in connection with corporate transactions, advising on withdrawal liability matters and structuring benefit plans following a transaction and providing counsel with respect to all aspects of benefit plan mergers; and advising both employers and senior executives in connection with various executive compensation matters, including the negotiation and drafting of equity plans and awards, employment agreements, severance agreements and other compensation arrangements. Katrina is a member and former co-chair of Proskauer Women's Alliance Steering Committee and serves on Proskauer’s Reproductive Rights Steering Committee. She is also a Board member of Playwrights Horizons, an off-Broadway theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights and the production of innovative new work, and a Board member of the Axe-Houghton Foundation. Prior to joining Proskauer, Katrina served as Special Assistant to the Mayor’s Office of Pension and Investments and was Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, Pensions Division, New York City Law Department. While in law school, Katrina was the Robert M. LaFollette/Keenan Peck Legal Fellow, serving in the offices of Senator Herb Kohl & the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Allison Tanner

Alden Bianchi

Alden J. Bianchi is an experienced Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation lawyer who advises corporate, not-for-profit, governmental and individual clients on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans. Alden represented the Romney Administration in connection with the historic 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act, and he testified before the Senate Finance Committee in the lead-up to the Affordable Care Act. His published works include the Bloomberg/Bureau of National Affairs Health Care Reform Advisor, a comprehensive study of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employers and employer-sponsored group health plans. Alden also serves as the current chair of the Bloomberg Tax Compensation Planning Journal Advisory Board.

Diane Dygert

Partner and Chair of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Department

David Levine

Principal

Brian Pinheiro

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group

Seth Safra

Seth J. Safra is co-chair of Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Described by clients as “extremely knowledgeable, practical, and strategic,” Seth advises clients on compensation and benefit programs. Seth’s experience covers a broad range of retirement plan designs, from traditional defined benefit to cash balance and floor-offset arrangements, ESOPs and 401(k) plans—often coordinating qualified and non-qualified arrangements. He also advises tax-exempt and governmental employers on 403(b) and 457 arrangements, as well as innovative new plan designs; and he advises on ERISA compliance for investments. On the health and welfare side, Seth helps employers provide benefits that are cost-effective and competitive. He advises on plan design, including consumer-driven health plans with HSAs, retiree medical, fringe benefits, and severance programs, ERISA preemption, and tax and other compliance issues, such as nondiscrimination and cafeteria plan rules. Seth also advises for-profit and non-profit employers, compensation committees, and boards on executive employment, deferred compensation, change in control, and equity and other incentive arrangements. In addition, he advises on compensation and benefits in corporate transactions. Seth represents clients before the Department of Labor, IRS and other government agencies.

Malcolm Slee

Principal

Taylor French