Led by Atlanta-based trial lawyer Todd Wozniak, who defends companies, fiduciaries and public institutions throughout the US, Holland & Knight LLP is active in representing a wide variety of clients, from plan sponsors to trustees and plan administrators in all aspects of ERISA, ESOP and employee benefits litigation. The team is regularly engaged with litigation arising out of retirement, as well as health and welfare benefit plans brought by plan participants, medical providers and issues arising from the Affordable Care Act. One key matter the firm has been engaged in includes representing defendants from Torgerson Properties dealing with a novel issue of whether the sale of the stock held by the TPI Employee Stock Ownership Plan was a prohibited transaction. In Chicago, Chelsea Ashbrook McCarthy and Atlanta-based Lindsey Camp are active in defense in ESOP matters and 401(k) plans alleging claims of breach of fiduciary duty and prohibited transactions.
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Profil

Kernmandanten

  • Torgerson Properties
  • Isagenix Worldwide
  • Tenneco
  • RVR
  • Kruse Western
  • Credit Union Retirement Plan Association

Highlight-Mandate

  • Defending a lawsuit brought by the Department of Labor against the plan sponsor’s board of directors.
  • Representing company-side defendants in the putative class action captioned Kloss v. Argent Trust Co., et al.
  • Representing all of the individual defendants, including the members of the Isagenix Worldwide, Inc.'s board of directors, in a putative class action.

Anwält*innen

Praxisleitung

Todd Wozniak

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

Chelsea Ashbrook McCarthy; Lindsey Camp