Susan Peters Schaefer is a partner in the the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. She focuses her practice on tax-qualified retirement plans, with a particular emphasis on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and executive deferred compensation plans. She has advised clients on a wide range of matters which affect employee benefit plans, such as mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary responsibility issues, ERISA controversies and prohibited transactions. She has represented clients before the IRS and the Department of Labor.
