Michael Kushner

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Counsel, Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP, New York Practice in ERISA Titles I, II & IV, including: Retirement plans; qualification and design; IRS, DOL & PBGC compliance Nonqualified Deferred Compensation/ExecutiveCompensation M&A. Multiemployer plans. Cash balance plans and hybrid plans. Equity based pay, incentive pay. Stock Options Prohibited Transactions & Fiduciary Duty. Financial Products Golden Parachutes ERISA Litigation 457A 409A 162(m) Co-founder of China practice; represent Chinese multinational corporate clients in manufacturing, finance, insurance & energy. PRIOR EXPERIENCE Counsel, Coudert Brothers LLP, New York, NY Counsel, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC Director, Retirement Plan Compliance, Segal Company EDUCATION LL.M. (Taxation), George Washington Univ. (1982) JD, Univ. of Virginia School of Law (1977). BA, George Washington Univ. (1974). MAJOR PUBLICATIONS BNA Tax Management Portfolios: - Reporting & Disclosure under ERISA - Multiemployer Plans-Special Rules Employee Benefits Desk Encyclopedia ERISA: The Law and the Code, and ERISA: The Regulations (editor). BNA, Tax Practice Series on CD (various ERISA chapters). SPEAKING Frequent speaker before employee benefits audiences, including Benefits Management Forum and Expo, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, Profit-sharing and 401(k) Council of America, Legg-Mason WEB, AICPA & before business groups in Shanghai & Beijing China. TEACHING Dickinson School of Law, Adjunct Professor (ERISA). Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Instructor, CEBS. RECENTLY QUOTED IN: Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Compliance Week, Employee Benefits News; Chicago Sun Times. BAR MEMBERSHIP: -Member, NY, DC, MD & VA. ABA. -Chairman, ABA Committee on Employee Welfare Benefits, (RPPTE) LANGUAGES: English, French. Specialties: Qualified plans, executive compenstion, equity & performance based pay, employment agreements, welfare benefit plans, plan terminations, mergers, spinoffs, M&A, ERISA litigation, international pension & compensation planning, private equity, 409A, 457A, TARP. Investment in China.

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