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.
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Key clients
- HealthEquity
- Johnson & Johnson
- Citigroup Inc.
- RELX Group
- Ahold Delhaize
- Metropolitan Opera
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- New York Philharmonic
- New York City Ballet
- Consolidated Edison Inc.
Work highlights
- Successfully represented IAM National Pension Fund on significant withdrawal liability recoveries and affirmation of the fund’s withdrawal liability assumptions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
- Advised Board of Trustees of the Screen Actors Guild – Producers Health merged Plan on adoption of health plan private exchange and on successful resolution of lawsuit related to the plan merger and design.
- Advised RELX and other large employers on complex plan design and administration issues.
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Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Next generation partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
Seth Safra
Other key lawyers
Robert Projansky; Michael Album; Anthony S. Cacace; Justin Alex; Katrina McCann