Diane M. Morgenthaler focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation. She represents clients in matters before the US Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Diane serves as employee benefit counsel to Fortune 500 corporations and other global corporations, and represents both public and private clients. She regularly designs and implements a variety of employee benefit plans and programs. Diane has extensive experience in employee benefit issues involved in acquisitions, reorganizations and divestitures and in the design of employee benefits plans following such transactions. She also advises clients in matters involving multi-employer withdrawal liability, fiduciary liability and benefit claims.
Diane’s experience includes:
- Representing a Fortune 500 company in its $8.5 billion tax-free spin-off
- Representing a company in one of the year's largest private transactions
- Implementing an offshore pension plan for a company's global expatriates
- Implementing a lump-sum window for a pension plan as part of a company's de-risking strategy
Since 2004, Diane has been ranked by her peers as a “Leading Lawyer” in a survey published by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. Since early 2009, Diane also has been named as an Illinois Super Lawyer by Law & Politics. Finally, she was selected to the Legal 500 in 2011, and is the senior editor of EmployeeBenefitsBlog.com.
