Employee Benefits Plan Practice Area

Cary Kane is counsel, co-counsel or collection counsel to jointly administered labor-management pension, welfare, annuity and legal services plans with combined assets of over $1.5 billion. Our employee benefits law attorneys have 45 years of experience representing and advising trustees and administrators of Taft-Hartley employee benefit plans, whether serving as in-house counsel or at a firm.

We have experience with both the IRS and DOL aspects of ERISA fund administration in the private sector. We also have experience with Directive 12 and other regulatory requirements of fund administration in New York City public sector union affiliated plans. Cary Kane’s employee benefits attorneys have experience:

• providing advice and guidance to plan trustees and fund administrators
• evaluating the legality of plan design issues
• dealing with money managers, investment advisors and other plan consultants
• litigating complex ERISA issues or claims involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty or wrongful denial of benefits
• preparing for an audit by the IRS or the DOL
• merging plans
• advising union staff plans
• collecting delinquent contributions and dealing with withdrawal and mass withdrawal liability

We are available to represent individual trustees or benefit plans for particular matters on a case-by-case basis. We are also available to represent benefit plans as either collection counsel or regular counsel, or both.

Cary Kane does not represent participants against jointly administered labor-management benefit plans.