Employee Benefits + Compensation Practice Group

Robinson+Cole's Employee Benefits and Compensation Group provides comprehensive employee benefits services to a wide range of clients, including publicly held and privately held companies, tax-exempt organizations, educational institutions, municipalities and other governmental entities, trust companies, and financial institutions. We pride ourselves on providing benefit solutions that meet the business needs of our clients while promoting compliance with the myriad laws governing employee benefit plans. We believe that this practical approach serves our clients well, particularly in the current environment of increasing benefit costs and shrinking resources to provide those benefits.

We advise and support our clients on a wide range of employee benefit programs, including:

• tax-qualified pension plans, including cash balance plans

• tax-qualified profit-sharing plans, including 401(k) plans

• employer plans covering unionized employees, including multiemployer plans

• Section 403(b) and Section 457(b) plans of tax-exempt organizations and governmental entities

• executive compensation arrangements, including equity and nonequity compensation and Section 409A compliance issues

• health and welfare benefit plans, including compliance with HIPAA and health care reform

• cafeteria plans

• employee stock ownership plans

• fringe benefit programs