Companies seeking new paths to growth require cutting-edge advice and winning litigation strategies to help them navigate the ever-changing employee benefits and executive compensation landscape. We can help.

Strategic Advice on All Aspects of Employee Benefits

We handle a sophisticated range of matters encompassing benefits plan design and operation, executive compensation, institutional investment and fiduciary responsibility, reductions in force, and ERISA litigation.

A Unique Global Compensation, Benefits, and ERISA Practice

• We represent major employers with respect to the design and operation of all types of benefit plans, including specialized programs such as retiree health benefits.

• As one of the nation’s premier institutional investment practices, we advise a wide range of clients on issues such as investment fund structuring, fiduciary responsibility, “operating company” status under ERISA, and interaction of ERISA with other laws, as well as audits and investigations.

• We handle the most complex benefit litigation matters, focusing on class action defense, including about 100 reported decisions.

• Our lawyers help companies plan, implement, and defend downsizing programs, and regularly devise innovative strategies for complying with the WARN Act.

• We support our colleagues in the firm’s Corporate practices, handling the employment and employee benefits aspects of M&A, outsourcing, and real estate transactions.