Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
USA Guide 2024 : Maryland
Band 1
About
Provided by Miles & Stockbridge PC
Miles & Stockbridge’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice works to ensure that employers’ health and retirement benefit plans and executive compensation strategies satisfy all applicable tax, legal and competitive standards. We counsel clients with operations throughout the United States and in foreign countries.
Our clients are public and private companies ranging in size from global multinationals to small employers and entrepreneurs.
Advice focuses on:
- Plan design, implementation and documentation
- Compliance with applicable IRS, DOL and PBGC regulations
- Non-discrimination testing
- Effective plan administration that can eliminate potentially costly mistakes
- Adapting plans to employers’ changing financial conditions and business needs, including changes necessitated by mergers and acquisitions
- Compliance with ERISA fiduciary duty standards and plan asset management requirements Design and implementation of ESOPs and stock bonus plans and related transactions
- Consultation regarding the specialized issues involving tax-deferred plans of government and non-profit employers
- Voluntary correction of plan design and operational failures
- Termination of defined benefit, defined compensation, welfare benefit and executive compensation plans
- Strategies surrounding the structure and implementation of equity and other forms of executive compensation programs
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Chambers Review
Miles & Stockbridge PC serves employers of all sizes, including those that operate overseas. It maintains a strong reputation for providing expert advice relating to executive compensation and health and retirement benefits, including compliance with regulatory requirements. The team is particularly experienced in assisting clients in the healthcare industry with matters such as ERISA compliance and ESOP implementation, and provides robust representation in disputes regarding alleged regulatory breaches. The firm offers further strength in employee transfers, as well as benefits issues arising from M&A.
Work Highlights
- Miles & Stockbridge PC advised REDLattice Incorporated on the employee benefits aspects of its sale to AE Industrial Partners.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Miles & Stockbridge provides comprehensive clarity on issues."
"We are consistently impressed with Miles & Stockbridge's practical and effective approach to very complicated matters."
"The firm provides timely, strong advice and it understands the client's needs and demands."
"Miles & Stockbridge provides comprehensive clarity on issues."
"We are consistently impressed with Miles & Stockbridge's practical and effective approach to very complicated matters."
"The firm provides timely, strong advice and it understands the client's needs and demands."
Notable Practitioners
Paolo Pasicolan is head of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice group at Miles & Stockbridge PC. He regularly advises clients on ESOPs and retirement plans as well as providing benefits advice during major M&A. He also has notable expertise in handling ERISA litigation.
"Paolo is a pleasure to work with. He can explain very complicated rules to us in an easily digestible way and always finds a solution."
"Mr Pasicolan is a subject matter expert, and both highly responsive and highly efficient."