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Benefits & Executive Compensation

Overview

Keeping pace with the changes and complexities of the regulatory environment, we help plan sponsors and service providers mitigate risk and advance critical HR objectives. With comprehensive service offerings, we consider your distinct needs and concerns in developing or modifying benefits plans and executive compensation arrangements. When it helps you, we form multidisciplinary teams — often comprising colleagues from our corporate, employment, health, insurance, investment management, and litigation groups. Through these collaborations, we identify creative resolutions to our clients’ most vexing problems and uncover opportunities that might otherwise go unseen. Whether you’re a benefits plan fiduciary, a government or other tax-exempt employer, a privately held company, or a public company, we provide practical counsel and customized strategies to address your specific challenges and opportunities.

Insights & Events

Latest

Blog Post May 2026

DOL Takes Aim at Proxy Advisory Services—What Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know About Technical Release 2026-01 and Their Fiduciary Duties Related to Proxy Voting

Spotlight on Benefits blog
1 min read
Blog Post May 2026

ERISA Litigation Roundup: Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Multiemployer Pension Plans May Use Post-Measurement-Date Actuarial Assumptions to Calculate Withdrawal Liability

Spotlight on Benefits blog
1 min read
Updates May 2026

Supreme Court Decides M & K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund

3 min read
Blog Post May 2026

The IRS Makes It Easy for Employers to Set Up an Educational Assistance Plan

Spotlight on Benefits blog
1 min read
Updates May 2026

Thinking ESOPs: Department of Labor Identifies New Enforcement Priorities

A New Era for ESOP Oversight: Clarity, Fairness, and Limits on Regulation by Enforcement
12 min read
Recorded Webinar April 29, 2026 CLE

Recent ERISA Litigation and Regulatory Updates: What Financial Service Providers Need to Know - Webinar

ERISA Fiduciary Hot Topics in 2026 Webinar Series
1 min read
Media Mentions April 2026

Brad Campbell and Joshua Waldbeser Discuss DOL’s 401(k) Alternative Assets Plan in ThinkAdvisor

1 min read
Recorded Webinar April 23, 2026

Inside the Beltway - Webinar

28 min read
News November 2025

Faegre Drinker Receives Three ‘Deal of the Year’ Awards From M&A Advisor

2 min read
Press Release September 2025

Public Company and Corporate Governance Advisor Angie Snavely Rejoins Faegre Drinker as Partner in Minneapolis

2 min read
Insights
Blog Post May 2026

DOL Takes Aim at Proxy Advisory Services—What Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know About Technical Release 2026-01 and Their Fiduciary Duties Related to Proxy Voting

Spotlight on Benefits blog
1 min read
Blog Post May 2026

ERISA Litigation Roundup: Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Multiemployer Pension Plans May Use Post-Measurement-Date Actuarial Assumptions to Calculate Withdrawal Liability

Spotlight on Benefits blog
1 min read
Updates May 2026

Supreme Court Decides M & K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund

3 min read
Blog Post May 2026

The IRS Makes It Easy for Employers to Set Up an Educational Assistance Plan

Spotlight on Benefits blog
1 min read
Updates May 2026

Thinking ESOPs: Department of Labor Identifies New Enforcement Priorities

A New Era for ESOP Oversight: Clarity, Fairness, and Limits on Regulation by Enforcement
12 min read
Media Mentions April 2026

Brad Campbell and Joshua Waldbeser Discuss DOL’s 401(k) Alternative Assets Plan in ThinkAdvisor

1 min read
Media Mentions April 2026

Sarah Bassler Millar Comments on New Mental Health Parity Rule in Law360

1 min read
Media Mentions April 2026

Brad Campbell Offers Insight on FACC’s Decision to Drop DOL Fiduciary Lawsuit

1 min read
Media Mentions April 2026

Brad Campbell Discusses Push to Extend 401(k) Rule Comment Deadline With Ignites

1 min read
Published Articles April 2026

Conflicts of Interest (Part 4): Managed Accounts and Avoiding Prohibited Transactions

Journal of Pension Benefits
1 min read

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