EthanMikhael
Law Clerk
Employee Benefits
emikhael@seyfarth.com
Ethan works alongside Seyfarth attorneys as they advise clients on complex employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
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Ethan helps Seyfarth’s Employee Benefits group as the attorneys advise the boards of trustees of multiemployer pension and health and welfare funds. These jointly managed labor-management plans face complex and changing rules, and his team helps them operate in compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Labor Management Relations Act. Ethan also assists with executive compensation matters, including the legal, tax, and regulatory considerations affecting equity compensation arrangements.
Ethan helps prepare plan amendments, trust agreement revisions, summary plan descriptions, trustee resolutions, and executive compensation arrangements. He researches questions involving plan administration, eligibility, executive compensation, and regulatory requirements, and monitors legislative and regulatory developments to help the attorneys he supports keep clients informed.
Before joining Seyfarth, Ethan gained experience in executive compensation and employee benefits, including matters involving Sections 409A, 280G, and 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, severance arrangements, 401(k) plan spinoffs and terminations, and benefits diligence for corporate transactions. At LMU Loyola Law School, he served as chief research editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review and won Loyola’s Transactional Negotiation Team competition.
Ethan helps prepare plan amendments, trust agreement revisions, summary plan descriptions, trustee resolutions, and executive compensation arrangements. He researches questions involving plan administration, eligibility, executive compensation, and regulatory requirements, and monitors legislative and regulatory developments to help the attorneys he supports keep clients informed.
Before joining Seyfarth, Ethan gained experience in executive compensation and employee benefits, including matters involving Sections 409A, 280G, and 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, severance arrangements, 401(k) plan spinoffs and terminations, and benefits diligence for corporate transactions. At LMU Loyola Law School, he served as chief research editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review and won Loyola’s Transactional Negotiation Team competition.
- JD, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Loyola of Los Angeles, Entertainment Law Review, chief research editor
LMU Loyola Law School Transactional Negotiation Team, Winner - BA, University of California - Los Angeles
Political Science
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Ethan works alongside Seyfarth attorneys as they advise clients on complex employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
More About Ethan
Ethan helps Seyfarth’s Employee Benefits group as the attorneys advise the boards of trustees of multiemployer pension and health and welfare funds. These jointly managed labor-management plans face complex and changing rules, and his team helps them operate in compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Labor Management Relations Act. Ethan also assists with executive compensation matters, including the legal, tax, and regulatory considerations affecting equity compensation arrangements.
Ethan helps prepare plan amendments, trust agreement revisions, summary plan descriptions, trustee resolutions, and executive compensation arrangements. He researches questions involving plan administration, eligibility, executive compensation, and regulatory requirements, and monitors legislative and regulatory developments to help the attorneys he supports keep clients informed.
Before joining Seyfarth, Ethan gained experience in executive compensation and employee benefits, including matters involving Sections 409A, 280G, and 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, severance arrangements, 401(k) plan spinoffs and terminations, and benefits diligence for corporate transactions. At LMU Loyola Law School, he served as chief research editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review and won Loyola’s Transactional Negotiation Team competition.
Ethan helps prepare plan amendments, trust agreement revisions, summary plan descriptions, trustee resolutions, and executive compensation arrangements. He researches questions involving plan administration, eligibility, executive compensation, and regulatory requirements, and monitors legislative and regulatory developments to help the attorneys he supports keep clients informed.
Before joining Seyfarth, Ethan gained experience in executive compensation and employee benefits, including matters involving Sections 409A, 280G, and 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, severance arrangements, 401(k) plan spinoffs and terminations, and benefits diligence for corporate transactions. At LMU Loyola Law School, he served as chief research editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review and won Loyola’s Transactional Negotiation Team competition.
- JD, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Loyola of Los Angeles, Entertainment Law Review, chief research editor
LMU Loyola Law School Transactional Negotiation Team, Winner - BA, University of California - Los Angeles
Political Science