Charles A. Filips

Charles is an associate in the firm’s Chicago office and focuses his practice on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. He assists in the employment, labor, compensation, and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other transactions. Charles advises on plan design and establishment, operational issues, qualified and nonqualified plan corrections, Code section 409A, 457(f) and 457(b) issues and IRS filings in general. Charles also represents plan sponsors and plan administrators in audits of qualified tax plans by the Internal Revenue Service. Additionally, he has experience advising tax-exempt clients, such as Code section 501(c)(9) organizations (VEBAs), on exemption requirements and unrelated business income tax (UBIT) issues.