Daniel R. Salemi

Clients turn to Dan for strategic employee benefits representation that balances technical precision with practical judgment. He works with clients to design and maintain state-of-the-art benefit plans and compensation arrangements to achieve each client’s unique operational goals. Dan’s broad background in the employee benefits area includes the representation of clients who are dealing with employee benefits and executive compensation issues in mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, restructuring, collective bargaining, and litigation. Dan represents clients across the United States in various industries, including public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

Dan also serves as co-chair of the firm’s multiemployer plan practice, a practice that is at the intersection of employee benefits and labor law. In addition to serving as counsel to several large multiemployer pension and health plans, Dan represents and counsels clients on pension withdrawal liability and other issues related to participation in multiemployer pension and health/welfare plans. He has experience assisting clients with pension withdrawal liability issues in a variety of contexts, including collective bargaining, workforce restructuring, subcontracting, corporate transactions, and plant relocations and closures, and representing clients in any resulting litigation. Dan also regularly represents employer trustees to multiemployer plans in deadlock arbitrations, covering a variety of issues.

Dan serves on Institutional Investor’s Defined Contribution Institute Advisory Board.

• Advises clients on the design, funding, ongoing administration, and termination of retirement plans of all types (including defined benefit pension, cash balance, profit sharing, 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans)
• Advises clients on compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, including the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, COBRA, the Internal Revenue Code, and ERISA
• Represents clients in multiemployer pension withdrawal liability matters 
• Assists clients with the design, funding, and administration of retiree health arrangements
• Represents clients in plan correction matters, plan audits, and other issues involving the US Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation