Securities Lawyer Mamta K. Shah ArentFoxSchiff

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Professional Biography

Mamta provides strategic advice to public and private companies on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the implementation, design, and administration of qualified employee benefit plans (such as 401(k) plans, profit-sharing plans, and defined benefit plans), nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, health and welfare plans, severance arrangements, and equity and other incentive-based compensation plans. Mamta also advises on employee benefits issues and executive compensation matters arising in the context of business transactions, such as corporate mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions.

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Counseled board of directors of a public company on plan governance matters with respect to $500 million 401(k) plan, $360 million pension plan, health and welfare plans, and nonqualified deferred compensation plans.
Counseled management of companies on strategic planning with respect to retirement benefits, including post-acquisition harmonization of employee benefit plans, mergers, spin-offs, plan terminations, and plan formations. Examples include:
- Designed lump sum plant shutdown benefits in overfunded $500 million pension plan.
- Designed loan rollover features under 401(k) plans in connection with transfer of employees to unrelated third parties.
- Consolidated 401(k) plans of multiple subsidiary companies into parent company’s $900million 401(k) plan in an eight-way merger.
- Redesigned public company’s $400 million 401(k) plan and its supplemental savings plan in connection with the freeze of its $350 million pension plan and its SERP.
- Designed lump-sum window program for privately-held company’s $400 million pension plan.
- Counseled management of private company on partial termination and reportable event issues in connection with reductions in force and facility closings.