Benefits and Breakfast: Post-Acquisition Integration of Benefit Plans

Drinker Biddle held the latest Benefits & Breakfast, our series of in-person morning meetings taking place throughout 2018 in our offices around the country.

These roundtable presentations feature lawyers from our national Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group discussing new and emerging issues.

Topic for the December Breakfast:

The integration of company benefit plans and compensation arrangements in connection with a corporate transaction can be a source of both headaches and opportunities. In this presentation, we discussed how to identify and address benefit plan issues before closing, and how to overcome the post-deal legal challenges that result from bringing together a variety of benefit plans.

In particular, we discussed the issues companies are likely to face when integrating the following types of benefit plans:

• Qualified retirement/401(k) plans
• Executive compensation plans
• Health and welfare plans