Stevens & Lee : Areas of Practice : Tax & Employee Benefits

A sizable portion of our tax practice is devoted to planning and executing complex structured finance transactions and tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions including tax planning, senior executive employment agreements, change in control agreements and benefit plan treatment. Aside from traditional tax matters, services include representation of clients before administrative tax agencies and before state and federal courts with jurisdiction over tax matters.

The firm's employee benefits practice works hand-in-hand with our labor and employment practice regarding all aspects of employee pension, welfare benefit, and executive compensation programs including design, maintenance, and compliance with obligations under federal employee benefits and related tax law. Representing employer/plan sponsors and health and life insurers, we regularly litigate all aspects of ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and issues arising from pension plans, ESOPs, health and welfare benefit plans, disability plans and group life insurance plans, particularly in the context of a merger or acquisition.

For more information, please e-mail H. Richard Brooks or call him at 610-478-2090.