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Jason P. Faust

+1 (312) 609 7727 jfaust@vedderprice.com View profile

Work Department

Labor & Employment - Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits

Position

Associate

Career

Mr. Faust focuses his practice on providing strategic counsel to a variety of clients regarding employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
Mr. Faust’s extensive employee benefits and compensation experience includes advising clients in relation to:

• Qualified defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, including 401(k) and 403(b) plans
• Health and welfare plans, including Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act compliance
• Nonqualified deferred compensation plans
• Multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and Internal Revenue Code compliance
• Employee benefits issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions

In addition to his wide-ranging experience, clients also benefit from Mr. Faust’s unique background and perspective on employee benefits. Prior to entering private practice, he served as in-house counsel for one of the nation’s largest Taft-Hartley defined benefit pension plans, as a compliance associate for a benefits, compensation, and human resources consulting firm, and as an extern with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Benefits Tax Counsel.

Education

• Marquette University, B.A., 2005
• The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 2012, cum laude
• The John Marshall Law School, LL.M., 2015, with honors