Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  The DOL has issued guidance in the past few weeks on two notable items. First, the DOL issued a final rule with respect to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors and impacts to ERISA retirement plans and the fiduciaries that oversee them.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Smith & Downey regularly advises clients concerning employee benefits and executive compensation issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. The firm also has considerable experience in applying federal and state securities laws to employee benefit and executive compensation plans, including the preparation of SEC registration statements for equity compensation arrangements, counseling on registration exemptions and insider trading restrictions, advice on employer stock funds as investment options under tax-qualified plans, and similar services.

Employment Law

• Employment Litigation

Immigration Law

• Business Immigration
  Doug Desmarais focuses his practice on all aspects of labor and employer/employee relations, general litigation, ERISA litigation, and business immigration. He has extensive experience in representing clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity C... Read More View Doug's Profile

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Under Section 704(a)(11) of the Bankruptcy Code, Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees must perform plan administrator functions with respect to the debtor’s ERISA-governed plans. This duty also applies to Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustees under Section 1106(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code.