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Kaufman & Canoles

ESOPs Benefits & Compensation - Q1 2025 Client Alert

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Happy Spring from the Kaufman & Canoles ESOPs, Benefits & Compensation team! We hope you’re shaking off the winter blues and ready for another round of benefits updates. ...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Five Things on the Department of Labor’s Radar for Employee Benefit Plans

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All qualified retirement plans are subject to a myriad of requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA). The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is charged with enforcing the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Anatomy of an ESOP

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ESOPs can pay fair market value for the stock: Stock purchased by an ESOP must be appraised by an independent third party expert working with a trustee for the ESOP who must also be independent from the seller. The ESOP is...more

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District Court Denies Interlocutory Appeal for Novel Issue of “Hardwired” 401(k) Plans

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A federal district court in Maryland recently declined to certify an interlocutory appeal to the Fourth Circuit on the issue of whether financial institutions can “hardwire” a preference for their own proprietary investment...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Plan Defends Valuation Of Accounts In Midst of COVID-Related Market Volatility

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A 401(k) plan and its administrators are defending the administrator’s decision to require a special valuation of former employees’ account values, given extraordinary market changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the...more

Littler

Does Jander Signal the Liberalization of Pleading Standards in Stock-Drop Cases? Signs Point to No

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The Second Circuit sent shock waves through the community of ERISA stock-drop practitioners late last year in Jander v. Retirement Plans Committee of IBM by finding plan participants had plausibly alleged a breach of duty of...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Courts Continue to Rule on Retirement Plan Mandatory Arbitration Provisions

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• Some retirement plans, including employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), have in the past few years included terms and provisions that require participant breach of fiduciary claims to be resolved in arbitration on a...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Second Circuit Gives New Life to Stock Drop Claim

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Seyfarth synopsis: The Second Circuit reversed dismissal of an ERISA stock drop class action finding plaintiff alleged enough to plausibly show that disclosure of alleged corporate problems would not have done more harm than...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

For Your Benefit- Fall-2018

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After a long period of relative stability enjoyed by sponsors of qualified retirement plans, several significant modifications have been made by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Act), following closely on the heels of...more

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The Rosenbaum Law Firm Review - January 2017

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Concepts You May Not Be Aware Of As A 401(k) Plan Sponsor. Quite a few things out there. As a child, I was never taught the birds and the bees. I was actually handed some cartoon book from my parents when I was...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The Directed Trustee in the Post-Dudenhoeffer World

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Overview - Court cases challenging the actions of Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciaries have continued unabated since the scandal of Enron in 2002. Since then, a large number of cases are in the ‘‘stock...more

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