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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
With attorneys based in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Winston’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) team represents a broad range of plan sponsors and offers clients not just deal support but the full suite of employee benefit services. These include public company reporting and executive compensation, employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions, qualified retirement plans and Title I investment advice, health and welfare benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and international human resources matters. And driven by a volatile labor market, we are partnering with clients to innovate plan structure and design, including cutting-edge services such as private exchange medical benefits, employee benefits in captive insurance, and fiduciary governance best practices. With decades of experience, our EBEC team maintains strong brand recognition, with clients describing our attorneys as “superb,” “very client-friendly,” “extremely responsive and able to bring forth the right resources,” and “having an “incredible breadth of knowledge.”
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Executive Compensation Plans & Agreements
Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) attorneys generally focus on two separate but related areas—employee benefits and executive compensation. We advise corporations, boards of directors, private equity firms, and executives on all legal, design, drafting, negotiation, and compliance aspects of executive compensation matters. We advise corporations, firms, fiduciaries, executives, administrators, governmental entities, and financial institutions on innovative and traditional employee retirement and health and welfare benefits programs. Our substantial experience and over 50 years of involvement in the EBEC field have given us a deep understanding of the evolution of benefits law and the market for executive compensation.
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Our team’s deep market knowledge of laws affecting retirement plans enables us to develop customized retirement plan solutions, practical advice, and strategies for our clients’ unique needs and workforce composition. Our experienced benefits attorneys represent public companies, private companies, and private equity operating companies in retirement plan design and day-to-day plan compliance.
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|March 31, 2025
Experience
|January 10, 2025
Winston Advises on Pioneering Bitcoin Crypto Lending Programs
Experience
|July 18, 2024
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Webinar
|22 JULY 2025
Join us for an insightful webinar during which Dr. Nicole Lux (of Bayes Business School) and Denis Moscovici and Christopher Puyraimond (both of IEIF) will ‘deep dive’ into key data sets emerging from commercial real estate lending market activity in H1 2025 across Western Europe and the Nordics, with a particular focus on France. Winston partner Aparna Sehgal, in conversation with our presenters and panellists, will look at trends and projections emerging from the information analysed, including what to expect for the rest of 2025. We’ll also look at European debt availability and explore the most pressing financing issues of the day.
Client Alert
|July 16, 2025
|4 Min Read
Transatlantic M&A: What Buyers Should Expect
Although 2025 has so far witnessed significant market turbulence, looking ahead into the second half of the year, many factors appear promising: markets have begun to price-in the impact of tariffs, corporates have historically strong cash positions and private equity buyers are under increasing investor pressure to deploy dry powder.
Webinar
|July 15, 2025
The Revival of Most-Favored-Nation Pricing: What Pharma Needs to Know
Winston hosted a webinar exploring the evolving antitrust landscape as it intersects with drug pricing policy and regulation under the current administration. Reviving the “most-favored-nation” drug pricing principle of the prior Trump administration, this administration is leveraging antitrust tools to address high pharmaceutical costs, signaling a shift toward increased regulatory scrutiny of market power and pricing disparities. Our lawyers covered the latest executive orders and proposed agency actions, potential implications for pharmaceutical companies and the broader healthcare industry, and how to navigate this changing regulatory environment.
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Law Glossary
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is a federal law from 1974 that governs how employers provide benefit plans to employees. ERISA is administered in part by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Labor. The law establishes requirements and guidelines for employers and benefit plan managers, trustees and certain other service providers. ERISA ensures minimum standards are set for the majority of private industry pension and health plans, as well as other benefit plans such as life insurance. Under ERISA, employees must be notified of benefit plan terms, including funding, coverage, and costs. Employees are also offered protections against fiduciary wrongdoing. Plan participants or the DOL may be able to sue plan fiduciaries if plans are mismanaged or if plan fiduciaries engage in conduct prohibited under ERISA, and plan participants may sue for unpaid benefits.
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What Is a Delaware Corporation?
A Delaware corporation is a company that is formed in the state of Delaware but can conduct business anywhere. Incorporating in Delaware has become widespread among large U.S. companies, including more than half of the S&P 500.