Multi-employer plans, because of their size and complexity, offer unique situations and require comprehensive knowledge of both the business-specific and broader environments. Our attorneys understand those challenges and have many years of experience representing Taft-Hartley pension and welfare benefit plans, acting as sole counsel and co-counsel.

During our long tenure as counsel to multi-employer plans, we have developed a familiarity and a working relationship with all relevant federal agencies, including the IRS, the DOL, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the Department of Justice. We handle special or complex matters involving:

• Fiduciary duties under stringent and complex conflict of interest standards of state and federal laws
• Financially troubled plans
• Government investigations and litigation
• Defense of fiduciary-breach litigation (representing both plans and individual trustees)
• Withdrawal liability issues
• Real estate investments, including acquisition and construction of plan administrative facilities
• Workouts of non-performing loans
• Arbitration and deadlocked motions
• Plan mergers, spin-offs, and consolidations
• Assessment of sophisticated investments under the fiduciary requirements of ERISA and state law

Our attorneys also are well-versed in handling common benefits-related matters, including:

• Legal compliance and plan amendments
• Plan design and benefit improvement issues
• Claims processing
• QDRO processing
• Contracts with all service providers
• Monitoring of plan expenses
• Review of plan communications
• Legal issues related to plan investments and investment managers
• Delinquency-collection policies and procedures