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October 28, 2019
|2 min read
Security Studies Can Provide Tax Benefits and Protect Valued Executives
Now that payroll season is heating up, employers must carefully tally up all the taxable fringe benefits they provide to employees.
July 29, 2019
Why should employers be thinking about litigation when working with executive compensation plans? In this episode of Winston & Strawn’s Benefits Blast Podcast, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Partners Mike Melbinger and Steve Flores talk about drafting improvements for executive employment and compensation agreements that are intended to help reduce employers’ risk of getting sued.
November 2, 2018
|2 min read
M&A Topics: Compensation Arrangements to Consider in a Section 280G Analysis
Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code is intended to discourage excessive compensation (sometimes referred to as “golden parachute payments”) to certain officers, highly compensated individuals, and greater than 1% shareholders (called “disqualified individuals”) of a corporation undergoing a change in control. Parachute payments include any compensatory payments or benefits contingent upon a change in control.
October 23, 2018
|3 min read
2018 Year-End Qualified Plan Amendments
As the end of the calendar year approaches, sponsors of tax-qualified retirement plans need to consider whether their plan documents require updates to meet legal compliance deadlines. Below is a list summarizing the important legal changes that may impact tax-qualified defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) retirement plans.