401(k) Fee Disclosure Rules: Demystifying Trends, Developments, and Best Practices

Paul L. Porretta is a partner in Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice group, resident in its New York office.

Mr. Porretta’s practice focuses on a wide range of services related to 401(k) plans, pension plans, multiemployer plans, employee stock ownership plan (ESOPs) and ERISA issues.  In addition, he has extensive experience with equity-based compensation, nonqualified deferred compensation, employment arrangements, health and welfare plans and HIPAA compliance.

Prior to joining Pepper Hamilton, Mr. Porretta was a partner with Morrison Cohen LLP and an assistant general counsel at MetLife.  He started his legal career at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP.

Mr. Porretta received a B.A. from Marquette University, a M.B.A. from Fordham University, a J.D. from New York Law School and a LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law. 

Mamta has experience advising public and privately-held companies on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the implementation, design and administration of qualified employee benefit plans (such as 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans and defined benefit plans), nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, health and welfare plans, and severance, stock option and other equity and/or incentive based compensation plans. Mamta also has experience in employee benefits issues arising in the context of business transactions, such as corporate mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, with an expertise in benefits integration and disintegration.