Daniel R. Salemi counsels clients on the full range of issues related to retirement plans, health and welfare plans, benefit plan investments, multiemployer plan issues, and deferred and equity-based compensation arrangements, helping them design and maintain state-of-the-art benefit plans to achieve each client’s unique operational goals. He provides in-depth, practical counseling on initial plan design, day-to-day plan administration and compliance, plan funding, associated labor law considerations, and plan modification and termination. Dan’s broad experience in the employee benefits area includes the representation of clients in collective bargaining, litigation, restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.
Dan represents plans and plan sponsors across the United States in various sectors, including public, private, and nonprofit organizations, as well as multiemployer funds, employer associations, and governmental benefit plans.
As co-chair of the firm’s multiemployer plan practice, Dan has had a strong focus on the multiemployer plan area throughout his career. In addition to serving as management-appointed counsel to multiemployer funds, Dan also represents contributing employer clients with respect to all issues related to participation in multiemployer funds, including multiemployer pension withdrawal liability and other issues related to participation in multiemployer pension and health/welfare plans. In this area of his practice, Dan represents employers in a variety of contexts, including litigation, collective bargaining, workforce restructuring, subcontracting, corporate transactions, and plant relocations and closures. He represents multiemployer funds and employers in virtually every industry, including construction, food, transportation, baking, manufacturing, hospitality, textiles, and entertainment.
Dan frequently speaks on employee benefit plan compliance issues and has presented to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network, the American Bar Association, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and the Illinois Association of School Boards, among others.
Additionally, Dan has authored articles published in Benefits Magazine, Bloomberg BNA, Benefits & Compensation Digest, NACUANOTES, Employee Benefit Plan Review, and The Corporate Executive.
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Benefits, Law360 (2022)
Recognized, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Chicago, The Best Lawyers in America (2020, 2022–2024)
Member, Law Firm of the Year, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Chambers USA (2019)
Member, Law Firm of the Year, Employee Benefits (ERISA Law), US News/Best Lawyers – Best Law Firms (2019)
Recommended, Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design, The Legal 500 US (2022)
Recommended, Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional, The Legal 500 US (2019–2021, 2023)
Ranked, Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation, Illinois, Chambers USA (2018–2023)
Vice chair, Fiduciary Responsibility and Plan Investments Subcommittee, Employee Benefits Committee (Tax Section), American Bar Association (2011–2018)
Recognized, Emerging Lawyer, Law Bulletin Publishing (2012–2022)
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