Employee Benefits, ERISA & Executive Compensation Attorney

About the role

This opportunity is for attorneys with experience in employee benefits, ERISA, executive compensation, retirement plans, health and welfare plans, benefits compliance, and executive compensation arrangements. Candidates must have strong drafting and analytical skills, be comfortable advising employers, plan sponsors, or executives, and be interested in technical benefits and compensation work.

Responsibilities

• Focus on executive compensation or EBEC-focused law firm experience, including executive employment agreements, severance, change-in-control protections, equity plans, stock options, RSUs, performance shares, profits interests, M&A executive compensation, 280G, 409A, 457(f), 457A, proxy compensation disclosure, comp committee counseling.
• Focus on retirement and qualified plans, including 401(k), pension, profit-sharing, plan design/amendments, plan sponsor counseling, nondiscrimination testing, plan corrections, EPCRS/VFCP, IRS/DOL audits, SECURE/SECURE 2.0, M&A benefits diligence, plan integration.
• Focus on ERISA/ESOP law, including employee benefits and compensation, ESOPs, 401(k)s, profit-sharing plans, plan drafting/amendment, ERISA compliance, fiduciary duties, plan corrections, M&A benefits due diligence, plan transitions, client relationship development.

Requirements

• Employee benefits, ERISA, executive compensation, tax, or benefits compliance experience.
• Relevant bar admission or eligibility.
• Strong drafting and analytical skills.
• Comfortable advising employers, plan sponsors, or executives.
• Interest in technical benefits and compensation work.

Qualifications

• NY or willing/eligible to waive in/sit for NY bar; NY or willing/able to waive in; IA preferred.

Skills

• Retirement planning
• Tax
• Health
• Employee benefits
• ERISA
• Compliance
• Welfare

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

• Rochester / Buffalo, NY: $120K-$170K
• Rochester / Buffalo / Albany, NY: $139K-$192K
• Des Moines / Cedar Rapids / Ames, IA: $160K-$225K

Schedule

• Hybrid / Remote Flexibility / On-site varies by role