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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Penalties for individuals were repealed, but employer penalties are ...
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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 ...
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Eligible Individual Account Plan: The Other Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Some companies want a way to get stock to the broader base of their workforce (with some extra "oomph" for their senior people), that is deductible and coordinates with their existing shareholder strategies, but that isn't as complex as an ESOP. Yet ...
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ESOP Trustee Indemnification: Three Things To Remember
In this article, we're revisiting three court cases involving ESOP fiduciary indemnification that left some head-scratching over when and how an ESOP company can indemnify its ESOP trustees. This year being the fifth anniversary of the last ...
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