Employee Benefits, ERISA & Executive Compensation Attorney

Primeline Solutions • Buffalo, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

These opportunities are focused on employee benefits, ERISA, executive compensation, retirement plans, health and welfare plans, benefits compliance, and executive compensation arrangements. Candidates must have relevant experience, strong drafting and analytical skills, be comfortable advising employers, plan sponsors, or executives, have relevant bar admission or eligibility, and be interested in technical benefits and compensation work. These roles are not suitable for litigation-only attorneys, general corporate attorneys with no benefits or executive compensation exposure, or attorneys not interested in technical statutory/regulatory work or without strong drafting and research skills. We are speaking with attorneys and legal professionals for select opportunities involving employee benefits, ERISA, executive compensation, retirement plans, health and welfare plans, benefits compliance, and executive compensation arrangements. These roles are grouped because the same candidate audience could reasonably match more than one opening in this tile.

Requirements

• Have employee benefits, ERISA, executive compensation, tax, or benefits compliance experience
• Have strong drafting and analytical skills
• Be comfortable advising employers, plan sponsors, or executives
• Have relevant bar admission or eligibility
• Be interested in technical benefits and compensation work

Nice To Haves

• NY or willing/eligible to waive in/sit for NY bar
• NY or willing/able to waive in
• IA preferred
• 1-7 years substantive executive compensation or EBEC-focused law firm experience
• 4-10 years substantive employee benefits/ERISA law firm experience focused on retirement and qualified plans
• 2-10 years ERISA/ESOP law; employee benefits and compensation

Responsibilities

• Focuses on executive compensation or EBEC-focused law firm experience
• Handles 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.
• Focuses on employee benefits/ERISA law firm experience focused on retirement and qualified plans
• Handles 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.
• Focuses on ERISA/ESOP law; employee benefits and compensation
• Handles 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed