Multiemployer plans are unique and complex, which require the advice of attorneys with extensive experience in this area.

Fox Rothschild’s attorneys serve as counsel to multiemployer plans and advise plan fiduciaries, contributing employers, employer associations and service providers. 

Our team of attorneys counsel on all aspects of the design and administration of multiemployer defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, welfare benefit plans and apprenticeship plans. We have the technical know-how and a deep understanding to ensure compliance in the intense regulatory environment. We have worked on plans ranging in size from small local plans to national industrywide ones. We have worked on creative and innovative solutions to funding challenges for retirement plans, including variable accrual and annuity retirement plan designs. We have represented plans and individual trustees and service providers in Department of Labor and other agencies’ investigations and audits.

Our attorneys have significant experience representing multiemployer funds and employers in court on issues related to withdrawal liability, delinquent contributions, audits, alter-ego and successor liability claims, contractual disputes, subrogation actions, fiduciary duty and prohibited transaction matters, and in trustee-deadlock arbitrations.

Our lawyers have guided clients through transactions where multiemployer benefit plan obligations create unique challenges, working alongside Fox’s corporate attorneys as well as serving as benefits counsel to external corporate teams. We have an in-depth understanding and expertise in withdrawal liability issues in transactions. 

We advise employers on collective bargaining strategy in relation to multiemployer plans, including mitigating withdrawal liability exposure, navigating requirements under funding improvement and rehabilitation plans, non-bargaining unit employees’ coverage and participation, and funding requirements of plans.