practice areas
practice accolades
Listed, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Nationally) in Chambers USA (2010)
Listed, Tax: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in The U.S. Legal 500 (2010)
honors + affiliations
Counsel, The Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association
Member, Board of Directors of Women in Pensions
Member and Past President, Steering Committee for Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB), Chicago Chapter
Member, Advisory Board, Pensions & Investments Defined Contribution Conferences
Member, Stable Value Investment Association
Member, Board of Directors, Chicago Chapter of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF
bar admissions
- Illinois
- Chicago
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77 West Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601-5094
Phone: 312.324.1114
Fax: 312.324.1001
Marla J. Kreindler is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. Ms. Kreindler concentrates her practice on the management and investment of employee benefit plan assets and tax-qualified retirement plans.
Ms. Kreindler is well versed in the application of ERISA's fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction rules and related banking, securities, and state insurance law requirements. She regularly counsels clients on their qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) and defined benefit plans.
Ms. Kreindler represents a wide range of publicly traded and privately held corporations, as well as major banks, investment advisory and financial services firms, insurance companies, broker-dealers, and private and government pension funds.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Kreindler was a partner in the corporate and employee benefits and executive compensation departments of an international law firm, resident in Chicago.
Ms. Kreindler received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987 and her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984. She also attended the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1982.
Ms. Kreindler is admitted to practice in Illinois.
education
- University of Michigan Law School, 1987, J.D.
- University of Michigan, 1984, B.A.