Employee Benefits

At SFNR, we apply our substantial technical expertise, broad and diverse experience, and careful attention to each client’s objectives to develop tailor-made and highly responsive benefit packages.

SFNR’s extensive experience in the qualified retirement plan area includes the design, creation and termination of retirement plans.  Too often companies rely on institutional prototype documents without considering the wide range of available options.  Whether we are implementing a basic 401(k) plan or designing a more sophisticated retirement plan adopted primarily for the business owner’s benefit, we strive to develop an arrangement that precisely suits the objectives of our clients.

Implementing a retirement plan and securing governmental approval are, of course, just the beginning of the larger retirement plan process.  Our benefits attorneys regularly advise and counsel clients regarding plan administration issues and propose new strategies that emanate from the latest developments in the law.  Once plans have been adopted, we interact with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and other governmental agencies to ensure that the plans not only comply with, but thrive within, the complex web of ever-changing federal regulations.

SFNR’s experience extends beyond the qualified plan arena as we have significant experience in the non-qualified plan arena.  Our considerable knowledge of the statutory deferred compensation rules has helped clients with those onerous tax provisions.  Whatever the specific need may be, we routinely help design and implement the necessary program.

The extensive knowledge and experience behind SFNR’s benefits practice is further supported by the broad resources of our Firm, offering supplemental services in taxation, corporate, estate planning, and litigation.

For more information about our Employee Benefits practice, please contact either of the following attorneys:

Bruce E. Bell - Bruce.Bell@SFNR.com

Ronald G. Silbert - Ron.Silbert@SFNR.com