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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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As a firm of choice for many major businesses, we represent employers, fiduciaries, boards of directors, benefit plans, and plan administrators in all aspects of ERISA litigation, including claims relating to fiduciary liability, plan investments, excessive fees, plan qualification, plan termination, reversion of excess assets, retiree medical benefits, severance and employment contract matters, tax liability matters, and retirement and welfare benefit claims.
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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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Experience
|July 17, 2025
D. Boral Capital Closes US$15M Robot Consulting IPO
Winston & Strawn LLP represented D. Boral Capital LLC and Craft Capital Management LLC in connection with the US$15M initial public offering of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of Robot Consulting Co., Ltd. The offering consisted of 3,750,000 ADSs priced at $4.00 per ADS, and the company’s ADSs began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol “LAWR” on July 17, 2025.
Experience
|March 31, 2025
After an eleven-day bench trial in January 2023, the N.D. Ill. delivered a full defense verdict in March 2025 in an ERISA class action brought by participants in Segerdahl Corporation’s ESOP. The court rejected the class claims against Segerdahl, its ESOP trustee GreatBanc Trust Company, and various individual defendants including board members Bob Cronin, Rod Goldstein, and Peter Mason, alleging that Segerdahl could have sold for a significantly higher price, which would have increased post-sale distributions to the ESOP participants. Winston earned an Am Law Litigator of the Week Shout Out for this win.
Experience
|January 15, 2025
Minto Communities, LLC’s Acquisition of Land in South Carolina
Winston & Strawn represented Minto Latitude HH, LLC, an affiliate of Minto Communities, LLC, a real estate company that develops and constructs master-planned residential communities in the United States, in connection with its acquisition of 2,231 acres of land located in Hardeeville, South Carolina. Minto Latitude HH, LLC intends to develop the property as an additional phase of its existing Latitude Margaritaville Hilton Head community.
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Direct Sellers Update: Regulation, Law & Policy
|September 9, 2025
|3 Min Read
No More Click to Cancel Rule—But FTC Enforcement Actions Keep Coming
The FTC’s much-anticipated “Click to Cancel” Rule was nixed, but the FTC is not backing down. The FTC continues to use Section 5 of the FTC Act and various other regulations to bring enforcement actions against companies that fail to provide clear and conspicuous disclosures about recurring charges and easy-to-cancel options for consumers.
Sponsorship
|September 8, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors, Speaks at IMN’s HEI & Home Equity Products Fall Forum 2025
Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor IMN’s HEI & Home Equity Products Fall Forum in Austin, TX. The forum is the nation’s preeminent event for exploring the latest industry trends in the burgeoning HEI sector and sharing insights on how to tap into the $30 billion home equity lending market.
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|September 8, 2025
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Erin Weber Highlights Upcoming Fifth Circuit Rehearing of No Surprises Act Challenge in Law360
Winston & Strawn partner Erin Weber was featured in a Law360 article discussing the Fifth Circuit’s upcoming en banc rehearing of a challenge to the No Surprises Act (NSA), which was designed to protect patients from unexpected out-of-network medical bills by establishing an arbitration process between insurers and providers. The full court agreed to rehear the case after a three-judge panel largely upheld the law in 2024. The consolidated suit, led by the Texas Medical Association, argues that the federal government unlawfully implemented a 2021 rule governing how payment amounts are calculated in the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process.
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Law Glossary
What Is a Qualified Retirement Plan?
A qualified retirement plan is a retirement plan established by an employer that is designed to provide retirement income to designated employees and their beneficiaries, which meets certain IRS Code requirements in terms of both form and operation. Common plan types are 401(k) plans, pension plans, and profit-sharing plans. A qualified retirement plan may allow for both employer and employee contributions. Employers must follow procedures to ensure participants and beneficiaries are able to receive their benefits. They must also stay apprised of changes in retirement plan laws and regulations. Qualified retirement plans provide certain tax advantages to employers and tax deferral advantages to employees who are contributing. Taxes on earnings from the contributions are also deferred until the employee withdraws them from the plan.
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.
Law Glossary
What Is Health Care Privacy Law?
Today, health care privacy law is driven by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. This federal privacy rule establishes protections for specific patient health information. Health care plans, clearinghouses, and providers are subject to the law.