"Who has to pay for COBRA coverage?" is a question we often hear from transaction lawyers and their clients in a stock sale or an asset sale. COBRA requires some employers to provide certain participants and their beneficiaries with group health plan coverage after certain events occur that ...
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It Pays to Give Your Retirement Plan A Comprehensive Review
Employee Benefits Law Group often works on retirement plans that have been in place for years and we know that simply making sure a plan is up to date is not enough.
We look at a plan’s “foundational basis.” If the underlying plan design, tax assumptions and fiduciary structure—the plan's ...
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Aren’t ESOPs Expensive?
As ESOP attorneys, we hear this question all the time. Aren't ESOPs expensive? Aren't they complicated? Well, that's actually the wrong question to ask. The right question to ask is this:
How do the costs and details of an ESOP transaction compare to a transaction where you sell your company to a ...
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M&A Benefits Due Diligence In Phases Lets You Decide How Much Review Is Enough
During M&A benefits due diligence, the deal lawyers we work with appreciate having ERISA counsel with serious transaction experience on their side. We understand that deal cost and time have to be kept in check. Our phased approach to employee benefits diligence puts you and your client in ...
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M&A Benefits Due Diligence: Failure To File A Form 5500 Is An Expensive Problem To Acquire
In a merger or acquisition, late or never-filed Form 5500s can be an expensive benefits problem to acquire and a sign there may be other issues with the company's benefits plan. It's a potential problem we efficiently solve with M&A benefits due diligence.
In this podcast, Wendy Gilligan ...
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Form 5500: Are You Sure You Are Filing All That Are Required?
Advice on how and when to file Form 5500…
How can filing an annual return/report on a Form 5500, a relatively simple information return that does not require the payment of any taxes, become so complicated and result in such huge penalties for noncompliance? The answer lies in the complex filing ...
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The Affordable Care Act During M&A Due Diligence
The Affordable Care Act is still a concern during an M&A transaction. In this podcast, Jim Paul explains why.
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The Affordable Care Act is still out there. Penalties for individuals were repealed, but employer penalties are still in effect. The IRS has started sending out ...
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Participant-Directed Retirement Plans: How California Public Employers Sponsoring Them Can Reduce Their Fiduciary Risk
This article looks at how California public employers sponsoring participant-directed retirement plans such 457(b) plans can reduce their potential for fiduciary liability by complying Federal Department Of Labor Code section 404(c) rules of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). ...
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SBA-Guaranteed Loans For Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Big News For Small Business
Inside the recently signed $717 billion, Fiscal Year 2019 John McCain National Defense Authorization Act is a small provision that has nothing to do with national defense but a lot to do with a big opportunity for small businesses and lenders.
Originally proposed as the Main Street Employee ...
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