SeongKim

Partner

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Seong advises retirement and health plans, Fortune 500 companies, boards of trustees, directors, C-Suite executives, and other senior managers on all employee benefit plan matters.


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Employee benefits plans are subject to complex and evolving federal and state laws, including ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, COBRA, and HIPAA. Seong has extensive experience advising retirement and health plans, Fortune 500 companies, boards of trustees, directors, C-Suite executives, and other senior managers on all employee benefit plan matters.

Seong serves as lead counsel for some of the largest multiemployer and single employer pension and health and welfare funds in the country with billions of dollars in assets in the entertainment, construction, gaming, retail food, hotel, culinary, and shipping industries, among others. He also advises contributing employers on all multiemployer plan and withdrawal liability issues.

Seong also advises governmental plans and public agencies, and has served as counsel to numerous county retirement systems, cities, counties, water districts, transit authorities, police and fire retirement systems, hospitals, and large publicly operated health plans. Seong has extensive experience with local and state rules impacting California employee benefit plans, including CalPERS, PEPRA, CalSavers, OPEB benefits, and the Knox Keene Act.

Seong also has significant experience in the areas of withdrawal liability, plan design, fiduciary responsibility, privacy, benefit claims and appeals, prohibited transactions, and service provider disclosure requirements. He regularly reviews and negotiates investment management, hedge fund, and private equity agreements, and assists in the investment of plan assets and the negotiation of side letters. Seong has also successfully represented numerous plan sponsors in controversies before the IRS, DOL, and PBGC.

In his counseling, he draws upon his experiences to offer clients a unique perspective to compliance with all employee benefits laws.

Seong enjoys working at Seyfarth, one of the most comprehensive and complex employee benefits practices in the nation. He appreciates being able to draw on that experience and knowledge to best service his clients.

  • JD, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
    Tax Law
  • BS, University of California, Berkeley
    Business Administration

    Honors

  • BA, University of California, Berkeley

    Distinction in general scholarship

  • California
  • California Superior Court