Legal Series: M&A Transactions & Underfunded Benefit Plan Issues Explored: A 2014 Update
Overview:
The growing issues arising from underfunded benefit plans are beginning to have a significant impact on many employers and their employees. Identifying these potential early on in the M&A process can significantly minimize damages.
This Knowledge Group LIVE webcast: M&A Transactions & Underfunded Benefit Plan Issues Explored aims to put you in the know with respect to understanding key issues surrounding underfunded benefit plans and their impact on M&A transactions. Our panel will take you through practical and real world examples while providing end-to-end discussion of the most critical issues affecting transactions involving underfunded benefit plans.
The following key topics will be addressed in this LIVE two-hour webcast:
- Introduction-Overview of Underfunded Pension Plans in M&A
- Underfunded Benefit Plans: An Overview
- Single vs. Multiemployer Pension Plans
- Insights on Treatment of Underfunded Pension Plans in M&A
- Legal Requirements
- Best Practices and Techniques
- Updates and Issues Involving Underfunded Pensions Plans in M&A, including Sun Capital Decision
Agenda:
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Underfunded Benefit Plans: An Overview
- Single vs. Multi-Employer Benefit Plans
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
- Insights on M&A Underfunded Benefit Plan Best Practices and Techniques
- Updates and Issues on M&A involving Underfunded Pension Plans
- Treatment of pension plans in transactions
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
- Insights on M&A Underfunded Benefit Plan Best Practices and Techniques
- Updates and Issues on M&A involving Underfunded Pension Plans
- Treatment of pension plans in transactions
Who Should Attend:
- Plan Sponsors, Fiduciaries and Participants- Employee Benefits & Compensation Lawyers and Consultants
- Payroll and Benefits Administrators
- Human Resource & Benefits Personnel
- Financial Advisers
- Public Companies
- Private Companies
- And other Related/Interested Professionals
Steve has 30 years of experience in the human resource consulting field and specializes in coordinating the HR aspects of …
Shane Stroud’s practice focuses on a wide variety of matters in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation, including …
Ian Levin is a Co-chair of the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New …
Course Level:
Intermediate
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method of Presentation:
On-demand Webcast (CLE)
Prerequisite:
NONE
Course Code:
144660
NASBA Fields of Study:
Personnel/HR and Business Law
NY Category of CLE Credit:
Areas of Professional Practice
Total Credits:
2.0 CLE
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SPEAKERS' FIRMS:
About PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
As a leading provider of HR consulting services, PwC's Human Resource Services' global network of 7,000 HR practitioners in over 150 countries, brings together a broad range of professionals working in the human resource arena — retirement, health & welfare, total compensation, HR strategy and operations, regulatory compliance, workforce planning, talent management and global mobility— affording our clients a tremendous breadth and depth of expertise, both locally and globally to effectively address the issues they face.
PwC is differentiated from its competitors by its ability to combine top-tier HR consulting expertise with the tax, accounting, and financial analytics expertise that have become critical aspects of HR programs.
For more information go to: www.pwc.com/us/hrs
Website: https://www.pwc.com/
About Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Established in New York in 1792, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP is a leading advisor to corporations and financial institutions, providing innovative solutions to complex legal issues. With offices in strategically located financial and governmental centers, the firm is well positioned to offer top-flight services to clients conducting business across the globe.
Website: https://www.cadwalader.com/
About Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is an international law firm that provides strategic legal representation and counsel to market-leading public and private companies. Founded in 1888, the firm has approximately 600 lawyers based in key financial centers: New York, Washington, Paris, London, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt and Brussels. Our Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Department provides a full range of legal services to public and private entities, boards of directors, compensation committees, management teams and individual executives regarding complex executive compensation and employee benefit matters. Our attorneys design, negotiate, draft and implement cutting edge plans, programs and policies for compensating, attracting and retaining key executives, employees, partners and board members. We also assist clients in resolving complicated fiduciary and compliance issues under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code, and work closely with the firm’s other transactional practice areas.
Website: https://www.willkie.com/