Overview
Our Employee Benefits practice is among the largest in Connecticut, providing a broad range of services to clients of all sizes, and assisting them in understanding and managing increasingly complex employee benefits laws and regulations. The firm has practiced employee benefits law for more than 50 years and our attorneys handle all aspects of employee benefits plans for both taxable and tax-exempt employers.
Some of the services we provide for our clients include:
- Designing, implementing and terminating 401(k), profit sharing and pension plans for corporations, municipalities and other entities as well as self-employed individuals; ongoing advice concerning plan maintenance and coordination among plan administrators, record keepers and consultants
- Advising businesses regarding all aspects of employee benefits in corporate transactions
- Provide guidance on all aspects of ERISA benefit plans
- Representing governmental employers and advising government officials on all aspects of plan compliance and fiduciary duties including establishment and review of investment policy and guidelines and proxy voting policy
- Analyzing, developing and implementing retirement and deferred compensation arrangements for tax-exempt entities including 403(b) and 457 plans
- Advising employers and institutional clients on qualified plan and IRA compliance, distributions, funding, plan investments, prohibited transactions and fiduciary responsibilities
- Conducting compliance reviews for qualified plans, and representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Labor, and the PBGC regarding plan compliance issues including plan audits, determination letter requests, breaches of fiduciary duty and prohibited transactions
- Advising clients regarding the various IRS and DOL qualified plan correction programs and applicable procedures, including voluntary correction of plan operation and compliance failures, under IRS and DOL procedures
- Designing non-qualified, deferred compensation and retirement benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements for key employees including appropriate funding arrangements
- Providing advice on plan and IRA distributions, including rollovers and integration of employee benefits with overall estate planning and tax planning for business owners, executives and professionals
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Our attorneys routinely advise our clients on best practices to meet the challenges presented by dramatic changes in labor and employment laws.
Pullman & Comley represented the Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association in a merger transaction with Bethel Visiting Nurse Association and New Milford Visiting Nurse and Hospice, resulting in RVNAhealth, a single not-for-profit organization that delivers the highest quality health care for their patients across 35 communities in Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties.
Pullman & Comley attorneys have been closely monitoring the legal implications for businesses, municipalities, educational institutions and other organizations of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, and have been responding to a broad range of client questions. For your reference, we have summarized recent publications and blog posts authored by our attorneys here: FOCUS: Responding to COVID-19.