Robert Projansky > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Proskauer Rose LLP
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-8299
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Labor & Employment

Position

Robert M. Projansky is a partner in Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group and is currently a member of Proskauer’s Executive Committee.

Rob has a broad practice advising both multiemployer and single employer clients on all issues related to the legal compliance and tax-qualification of ERISA-covered pension and welfare plans. Rob’s clients include the largest and highest-profile U.S. media and entertainment industry clients, as well as a broad range of Fortune 500 companies.

In the multiemployer context, he serves as counsel to the boards of trustees of a number of large and small funds and frequently assists clients in addressing issues related to the funding of defined benefit pension plans, including zone status, benefit suspensions, special financial assistance and withdrawal liability. He also advises these clients on healthcare compliance, cybersecurity and government investigations. In addition, his practice includes advising corporate clients on their responsibilities related to multiemployer plans, with particular expertise on the impact of multiemployer and collectively bargained plans in corporate transactions.

Rob has extensive experience advising corporate clients regarding general compliance issues and fiduciary compliance matters, including plan asset and prohibited transaction issues. He also has addressed a myriad of issues related to complex plan investments, including negotiation of separately managed and collective investment vehicles for both traditional and alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds and fund-of-funds vehicles.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design

The team at Proskauer Rose LLP provides a comprehensive service in employee benefits and executive compensation plan design, with the practice’s multifaceted approach providing clients with high-quality and deep counsel across benefit and compensation plan design, issues regarding corporate transactions and employee benefits, and ERISA litigation all covered by the team. Based in Washington DC, Seth Safra leads the department, providing design assistance largest executive compensation plans to day-to-day administration and compliance advice He is joined from New York by Robert Projansky, an expert in employee benefits for clients in the entertainment industry, representing major entertainment companies on benefit plans valued in billions, and Michael Album, a thought-leader in the executive compensation field, representing management teams in multi-billion-dollar MBOs across a variety of sectors. Other leading attorneys in the department include New York’s Anthony Cacace, trusted in the ERISA multiemployer space, and Washington DC’s Justin Alex, an expert in distressed pension issues. Katrina McCann from NY is a leading associate in the field of benefit plan design.