Employee Benefits (ERISA)

Compensation

Richard S. Chargar, Victoria H. Zerjav, Francisco J. Cebada | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

An employer that administers an employee benefit plan often takes on the role of fiduciary. Under the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege, communications between a plan fiduciary and counsel regarding matters of plan administration have been held to be discoverable, to the extent...

Private Equity

Kenneth A. Raskin, Leslie M. Bassett | King & Spalding LLP

Editor: Please provide our readers with the facts involved in the case Sun Capital Partners v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund. Raskin: In the Sun Capital case, the First Circuit Court of Appeals held that an investment fund managed by a private equity firm, Sun...

Healthcare

Catherine E. Livingston | Jones Day

Editor: Please describe your background as Health Care Counsel in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel where you had a key role in developing and advising on the Affordable Care Act. Livingston: I spent ten years as an executive in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, the last three of which were...