Faegre & Benson provides legal advice across the full spectrum of compensation and employee benefits matters. We offer comprehensive services for employers and service providers with complex and ever-changing needs.

We provide counsel regarding:

• Retirement and welfare plan design and compliance
• Government, tribal and tax-exempt employer plans
• International compensation and benefits
• Benefit product offerings and service issues
• Fiduciary duties and plan governance
• Business transaction support
• Compensation, fringe benefit and payroll practices
• Employee stock ownership plans
• Multiemployer plan issues

Plan design and administration. We advise employers on the design and administration of compensation and benefit programs for their employees. We are national leaders in cash balance and hybrid plan issues; stock-based qualified plans; and government, tribal and tax-exempt employer plans. We have unique international capabilities—with lawyers focused on international benefits and mobility issues.

Product and service assistance. We advise some of the largest plan recordkeepers in the United States. Financial and service organizations turn to us for assistance with structuring financial products and service offerings, fiduciary and risk-management advice, document compliance and administrative support.