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| Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation |
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The Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group designs, builds and maintains benefit plans as strategic assets for clients. We understand that tax-advantaged benefits packages help businesses attract, motivate and retain the best employees. Our individualized, comprehensive and cost-effective solutions allow a business to align management and shareholder interests and provide tax-advantaged benefits more effectively than piecemeal packages of mass-produced products.
We work with clients ranging from start-ups to publicly traded companies. Our experience includes a wide range of plans including stock option and other equity-based plans (such as stock appreciation right or phantom plans), other nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and related issues involving parachute payments or compensation limitations and qualified profit sharing, 401(k), pension and employee stock ownership plans.
Ater Wynne offers ongoing fiduciary education and training to ensure that the individuals responsible for the plan have the tools they need to fulfill their fiduciary duties and administer the plans in accordance with the many rules and regulations governing them. We also assist with vendor selection and monitoring to ensure the right people offer the right services to help you make your employees more productive and financially secure. We also design tax-favored fringe benefit plans such as cafeteria and dependent care assistance plans and help businesses navigate the rapidly changing variety of medical care benefit issues such as HRAs, HSAs and COBRA.
Related Industries:
Energy
Financial Services
Food & Beverage
Footwear & Apparel
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Natural Resources
Real Estate/Construction
Technology & Telecom
Tribal Economic Development
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Columbia River PUD
Consolidated Metco, Inc.
FLIR Systems, Inc.
The Four Dam Pool Power Agency
Pixelworks, Inc.
Planar Systems, Inc.
REC Advanced Silicon Materials
TriQuint Semiconductors Inc.
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- Prepare public company plan’s investment policy statement, Administrative Committee Charter and consult on ERISA fiduciary issues.
- Conduct plan fiduciary audit and recommend best practices for large assisted living business.
- Represent art studio’s plan before IRS in Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System proceeding to obtain compliance letter absolving several operational failures.
- Redesign medical group’s profit sharing plan to increase allocation to targeted employees by 100 percent at no additional contribution cost.
- Advise manufacturing company’s plan administrator regarding domestic relations orders.
- Advise plan administrator regarding impact of new deferred compensation statute on stock appreciation rights plan and recommend corrective actions.
- Advise on merger of retirement and other benefit plans following acquisition.
- Represent plan and plan fiduciaries in alleged breach of fiduciary duty claim.
- Revise nonqualified deferred compensation plan to comply with IRC § 409A.
- Provide opinion on tax effects of converting qualified stock options into discounted options.
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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Attorneys:
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John D. Walch (Contact, Portland)
L. David Connell
Michael W. Shackelford
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