Proskauer Rose LLP

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Primarily New York-headquartered with a broad national scope, Proskauer Rose LLP boasts a full-service ERISA offering, spanning ERISA class and individual lawsuits, employee benefit claims, amicus briefs and DOL investigations. The team is led by the considerable expertise of Myron Rumeld, regarded by many as a leading figure in ERISA civil litigation, along with Russell Hirschhorn, who has represented several high value plan fiduciaries, trustees, sponsors and service providers from a wide range of sectors including technology, entertainment, and financial services. They are joined by Joseph Clark, also operating from New York, and specializing in claims relating to fiduciary responsibilities and withdrawal liabilities. New York-based, Neil Shah serves as the lead for Taft-Hartley plan clients in withdrawal liability and delinquent contributions matters. Tulio Chirinos left the firm.

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‘Russell Hirschhorn consistently places an emphasis on keeping us informed of every aspect of the present litigation.’

Key clients

Wells Fargo & Company
Xerox Corporation
National Basketball Association
MetLife
Intel Corporation
Bessemer Trust Co.
Baystate Health Inc.
Otis Worldwide Corp.
Robert Goldfarb
The Board of Trustees of the Employee Benefit Funds of Heat & Frost Insulators Local 12
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) Health Plan
Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund (M&K Employee Solutions, LLC; Ohio Magnetics, Inc.; Toyota Logistics Services, Inc.; Phillips Liquidating Trust)
Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund (American Brass & Iron;BAE Systems, Inc.; Co-Operative Plating Co.; Electrolux Home Products, Inc.; Hydro-Conduit Corporation dba Rinker Materials; Ramcel Precision Stamping and Manufacturing LLC; StrippIt, Inc.; Triumph Composite Systems, Inc.)
IBT Local 854 Pension Fund - Jofaz Transportation Inc.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP – Dabney
American Benefits Council, ERISA Industry Committee, American Retirement Association, Council on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets – BlackRock Target Date Fund Litigations

Work highlights

Representing Wells Fargo & Company and others in a putative class action related to its 401(k) Plan that has more than 50bn in assets and more than 325,000 participants.
Representing MetLife in a putative class action alleging cutting-edge claims that retirement plans use antiquated group annuity mortality tables to convert plan participants’ accrued benefits.
Representing the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and its Trustees in a high-profile lawsuit brought by the late Ed Asner.

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