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Fax: (212) 808-7897 |
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| Mr. Laska's practice focuses on employee benefits, executive compensation, and ERISA. Mr. Laska is Co-Chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group. |
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Representative Experience:
Represents Fortune 100 companies on benefits issues related to corporate acquisitions and divestitures.
Represented a Fortune 50 company in the spinoff of a major subsidiary to shareholders. Principal architect of related agreements allocating over $10 billion in benefit plan assets and liabilities.
Represents major public, private and not-for profit companies as well as senior executives in negotiating employment agreements and separation agreements.
Represents institutional trustees of ERISA plans on fiduciary matters and has given lectures to third-party fiduciaries on their obligations under ERISA.
Regularly advises several Fortune 100 companies on benefits and compensation issues.
Provides ongoing benefits counsel to several of the largest not-for-profit health providers in the New York metropolitan area.
Extensive experience in the area of non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements for both for-profit and not-for-profit companies, as well as the use of rabbi trusts, non-qualified annuities and Section 457 plans.
Represented two major corporations with respect to the termination of their pension plans and reversion of $1.5 billion and $500 million in surplus assets. In connection with these reversions, negotiated unique participating annuity arrangements with major insurance companies.
Retained as special counsel to the trustees of a $1 billion employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
Represented several Fortune 100 companies in establishing leveraged ESOP's.
Regularly counsels clients on compliance with reporting and filing requirements under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code and the securities laws. |
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Publications:
"The New Deferred Compensation Rules: The Sky Is Not Falling," Compensation & Benefits Review, May/June 2005
"Cover One, Cover All? - Casting Doubt On A Common Retiree Medical Benefit Practice," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, November 2000
"ERISA - Electronic Reporting and Information Seem Acceptable," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, May 1999
"Assessing Liability: Separating The Fiduciary From The Functionary," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, July 1998 |
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Bar Admissions:
New York, 1985
Connecticut, 1995
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| Education:
New York Law School, JD, magna cum laude, 1984
Brooklyn College, BA, 1973
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Office Location:
101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0002
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