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Final ERISA Regulations: Complying with Participant Disclosure Rules

Course Description:

The final ERISA rules for fiduciary requirements for fee disclosure in participant-directed individual account plans have been released — and experts say the DOL rule's impact will be significant. 

In fact, the new rules mean meeting some comprehensive reporting requirements. HR and benefits manager tasked with managing these programs will need significantly to increase and adjust the information that participants receive. 

In this information-packed audio conference our expert faculty will help you sort out the new rules and better understand:

• Which plans are affected by the new rules
• What disclosures are now required
• What you need to start putting in writing and getting from providers
• Possible consequences of non-compliance
• Which legislative initiatives might be impacted by the new rules

featured faculty:

Linda K. Shore, Counsel, Mayer Brown LLP

Linda Shore’s practice focuses on matters involving ERISA and employee benefits, as she represents financial services firms and corporate plan sponsors in all areas covered by ERISA regulation.  She has extensive experience in structuring private investment funds, commingled trusts, insurance company separate accounts, REMICs, REITs and other investment products to be offered to ERISA and governmental plan investors.  She also focuses on 401(k) plan investment structures.

Such clients as employers, third-party administrators and other plan service providers rely on Linda for sophisticated regulatory counseling on various issues that arise in the administration of employee benefit plans, including plan governance and compliance procedures.  She regularly represents clients before the US Department of Labor and other federal agencies involved in regulating employee benefit plans, assisting them with government investigations, regulatory filings and requests for interpretive guidance and exemptive relief.  In addition, she represents clients involved in ERISA litigation.

Linda has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Georgetown University Law Center graduate employee benefits program since 1993.  She is a frequent writer and speaker on benefit, pension and ERISA issues.  Reflecting her national visibility in these areas, she has been interviewed and quoted by, among other publications, The Wall Street Journal, CBS Marketwatch, Institutional Investor, Pensions and Investments, Investment News, IM Insight and MSNBC.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2005, Linda was an ERISA specialist at the US Department of Labor and a shareholder in other Washington firms. 

Andrew L. Oringer, Partner, Ropes and Gray LLP 

Andrew L. Oringer, a partner in Ropes & Gray's Tax & Benefits Department, leads the firm's ERISA and executive compensation practice in New York.  Andrew counsels clients on their employee benefit plans and programs, benefits-related tax matters and fiduciary issues arising in connection with the investment of employee benefit plan assets.

Advising the firm's clients on employee benefits strategies in the context of corporate transactions, Andrew has been involved in the structuring of numerous large investment funds.  He frequently counsels plan fiduciaries on investments and has been instrumental in designing novel structures to address complex issues.  His advice to clients encompasses all aspects of corporate transactions and initial public offerings in which benefits and compensation issues play a central part.  He also represents employers and executives in the negotiation of executive employment and termination agreements.

Nationally known for his Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and executive compensation experience, Andrew lectures regularly on employee benefits and executive compensation issues, and is frequently quoted in various major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Crain's Pensions & Investments, Newsday, USA Today and The Chicago Sun Times.  Andrew is chairman of the Fiduciary and Investments Sub-Committee of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA's Section of Taxation, and co-chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and a member of the Tax Section's Executive Committee.  He has authored or co-authored numerous reports to the government, and has been called upon to testify before Congress regarding pending legislative initiatives.  He serves on the advisory boards of the BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter and the Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, and is an adjunct law professor at Hofstra University's law school.  Andrew is highly rated in the Chambers and Practical Law Company rankings of attorneys, and is included in a widely disseminated list of New York City's Top 100 lawyers across all practice areas.

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Pricing:

Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

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