Our Expertise
Pension & Employee Benefits
SCMV’s lawyers offer years of experience in providing advice and support services to its clients
concerning all facets of employee benefits, including qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, cafeteria/flexible benefit plans, and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Specifically, our employee benefits practice includes designing, drafting and indexing:
- Qualified retirement plans, including profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, money purchase pension plans, and defined benefit plans
- Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)
- Nonqualified deferred compensation plans, including stock-based incentive compensation plans, rabbi trusts, and supplemental retirement arrangements
- 403(b) and 457 plans for tax-exempt and governmental agencies
- Health and welfare benefit plans, including medical, dental, life insurance, cafeteria, and severance plans, and VEBA trusts
Our employee benefits attorneys are also well experienced with:
- fiduciary responsibilities under ERISA, including prohibited transactions and available exemptions, plan assets, and fiduciary standards of conduct
- plan terminations and distributions
- day-to-day administration, including plan administration and testing
- plan audits by the Internal Revenue Service and/or Department of Labor
- correcting plan defects, including the use of IRS compliance programs
- QDRO, COBRA, FMLA, HIPAA, and IRAs
Beginning with design and implementation, and continuing through the life of the plan, our employee benefits attorneys work actively to find and administer solutions to meet the unique needs of each client.