Description

This comprehensive, easy-to-use book provides expansive coverage of employee benefits issues that arise as a result of mergers and acquisitions, including analysis of the required legal and tax compliance strategies to avoid costly litigation and the soundest business practices for administering benefits and compensation plans in a merger and acquisition setting. It is intended to guide benefits experts who have little experience with mergers and acquisitions and acquisitions specialists who have little background in benefits administration.

The 2021-2022 Edition updates the coverage of legislative and regulatory developments in the past year that affect employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including:

• Updates of chapters to reflect the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), particularly the latter's effect on defined benefit funding.
• Updates of chapters to reflect the Setting Every Community Up for Retire 1]ment Enhancement (SECURE) Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco 1]nomic Security (CARES) Act legislation and their impact on plans of companies involved in M&A transactions, as well as guidance published by the Departments of Treasury and Labor in relation to these changes.
• Discussion of the need to update plans for the Third Cycle ("Tricycle") for qualification, as well as of the SECURE Act and CARES Act changes.
• Updated discussions of multiple-employer plans (MEPs) and pooled employer plans, how they are affected by a company transaction, and how to terminate a plan's participation in an MEP structure.
• Current updates to PBGC premiums.
• Continued update of the IRS's most recent changes to plan correction pro 1]grams, particularly the expansion of the self-correction program, and the use of these programs to repair compliance errors found during or occurring in connection with an M&A transaction.

Previous Edition: Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions, 2020-2021 Edition ISBN 9781543824537