Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions: 2016-2017 Edition

Fully-updated to reflect the latest legislation, regulation, and IRS and DOL guidance, the 2016-2017Edition of Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions is designed for both benefits experts who have little experience with mergers and acquisitions issues and mergers and acquisitions specialists who have little background in benefits administration.

Comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, it provides the expert guidance you need to help ensure legal and tax compliance and avoid costly litigation and penalties as you work to integrate and administer the employee benefits programs of two or more companies.

Written by recognized authority Ilene H. Ferenczy, and a team of noted experts, Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions, 2016-2017Edition has been updated to include:

• The current status of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)on plans involved in business transactions, including information regardingnew reporting requirements in relation to health plans
• Discussion of the plan fiduciary s responsibilities in relation to the serviceprovider and participant fee disclosures
• Discussion of the changes in process to the IRS s procedures in relation toreview of documents for tax-qualification
• Updates to IRS rules for modification of safe harbor 401(k) plans during theplan year
• The PPACA-mandated IRS and DOL guidance and its effect on plan administrationand issues in mergers and acquisitions
• The latest Supreme Court opinions relating to employee stock ownership plans(ESOPs) and the elimination of the Moench presumption of prudence inpurchasing employer securities
• And much more