McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Partner Todd A. Solomon is the head of McDermott’s Benefits, Compensation & Employment Practice Group. Todd focuses his practice on designing, amending and administering pension, profit sharing, 401(k), employee stock ownership and 403(b) plans, as well as nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. He also counsels privately and publicly held corporations and tax-exempt entities regarding fiduciary issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), employee benefits issues involved in corporate transactions, executive compensation matters and the implementation of benefit programs for domestic partners of employees.

Todd has significant ERISA Title I experience and has counseled plan fiduciaries with respect to investment policies, private equity, hedge funds, and other alternative investments, prohibited transaction issues, investment management agreements and payment of expenses from plan assets.

He advises multinational clients on global employee benefits matters and compliance issues. Todd is a council member of the International Bar Association Global Employment Institute (GEI) and serves as editor of the GEI’s Annual Global Report on global legal issues impacting human resources.

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Equal Justice Works, Member of the Board of Counselors International Bar Association (IBA), current Global Employment Institute Council member and past co-chair of the LGBT Law Committee and on the advisory board member of the Pension Action Center AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, past president of the board of directors Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, member of the board of directors Equip for Equality, member of the board of directors