Areas of Experience
Notable Work
Employee Benefits Team Members
Employee Benefits Articles
Employee Benefits Seminar Materials
Dean Mead’s Employee Benefits Team counsels clients on all aspects of their benefits programs. We represent a wide range of employers, including NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies, local middle market employers and an extensive number of professional associations in the medical, legal, accounting, architectural, and engineering fields.
Our Team assists clients with each stage of the development, implementation, and operation of their programs, including determination of the best benefits structure, drafting and adoption of specific plans, ongoing administration and compliance work, preparation of the necessary employee communications, and satisfaction of applicable governmental reporting requirements.
Our Team assists with the design, installation, and ongoing operation of tax-qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans, such as safe harbor 401(k) plans, cross-tested profit sharing plans, defined benefit pension plans, employee stock ownership plans, supplemental executive retirement plans, and qualified and non-qualified stock option plans. Also, we amend those plans periodically as needed to comply with changes in federal and state laws. We routinely counsel clients on COBRA health care continuation coverage issues, the implementation of Section 125 cafeteria plans and self-insured medical benefit plans, and the preparation and review of qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs).
In addition, we advise our clients on the employee benefit aspects of the purchase, sale, or merger of their businesses, as well as on the termination of their employee benefit plans.
Areas of Experience
- COBRA Health Care Continuation Coverage
- Equity Based Compensation Plans
- Incentive Stock Option Plans
- Nonqualified Stock Option Plans
- Restricted Stock Plans
- Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans
- Executive Bonus Plans
- Phantom Stock Plans
- Rabbi Trusts
- SERPS
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs)
- Qualified Medical Child Support Orders (QMCSOs)
- Qualified Retirement Plans
- Cross Tested Profit Sharing Plans
- Defined Benefit Pension Plans
- ESOPs
- Safe Harbor 401(k) Profit Sharing Plans
- Section 125 Cafeteria Plans
- Self-Insured Medical Plans
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Notable Work
Prepared several private letter ruling (PLR) requests to the IRS concerning the taxation of employer securities distributed from employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
Assisted numerous clients to rectify operational and fiduciary issues concerning their qualified retirement plans through the preparation of submissions under the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) and DOL Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFCP).
Amended and restated over 125 retirement plans to maintain their tax qualified status after the enactment of federal legislation known as GUST and EGTRRA and the promulgation of various federal regulations.
Provided employee benefits counsel to two ESOP owned companies in stock sale and merger transactions.
Assisted a publicly traded company with the employee benefits aspects of several stock and asset acquisitions.
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Employee Benefits Team Members
Robert W. Mead, Jr.
Joseph “Jay” Van Heyde II
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Elecronic Alerts
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February 24, 2009 |
COBRA Health Care Continuation Subsidies Under the Stimulus Bill |
Employee Benefits Articles
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June 2006 |
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March 2006 |
Employee Benefits Seminar Materials
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May 2009 |
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April 2007 |
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June 2005 |
