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Dominic is a partner in the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group. He focuses his practice on design, implementation and administration of a wide range of employee benefit programs, with an emphasis on compliance of tax-qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code (such as the tax qualification rules, 409A, and excise tax provisions), and other applicable laws and rules.

Potentially signaling a new wave of litigation, AT&T Inc. and AT&T Services, Inc. (AT&T) were hit with a class-action lawsuit on March 11, 2024 filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts relating to the 2023 transfer of $8 billion of their pension liabilities – covering approximately 96,000 participants in AT&T’s

On September 29, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) issues Advisory Opinion 2023-01A (Opinion) approving Citibank’s Diverse Asset Manager Program (Program) as it relates to plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The Opinion provides a road map primarily for pension and 401(k) plan sponsors who wish to increase the