Doug Dahl provides technical knowledge and advice to companies on a wide range of federal tax and ERISA matters regarding employee benefits, including qualified retirement plans, executive compensation arrangements and health and welfare plans. Doug regularly assists companies with employee benefit issues that arise during and following various corporate transactions and events, such as mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and bankruptcies.
Drawing on his experience as an attorney with the IRS, Office of Chief Counsel and his involvement with employee benefits at a National level in Washington, D.C., Doug represents companies in various interactions with the IRS, the Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Doug’s practice involves:
Doug Dahl provides technical knowledge and advice to companies on a wide range of federal tax and ERISA matters regarding employee benefits, including qualified retirement plans, executive compensation arrangements and health and welfare plans. Doug regularly assists companies with employee benefit issues that arise during and following various corporate transactions and events, such as mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and bankruptcies.
Drawing on his experience as an attorney with the IRS, Office of Chief Counsel and his involvement with employee benefits at a National level in Washington, D.C., Doug represents companies in various interactions with the IRS, the Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Doug’s practice involves:
- Regularly assisting both private and public companies with the creation, administration and compliance of qualified retirement plans.
- Providing assistance with qualified plan conversions, terminations and corrections.
- Preparing various types of equity and non-equity deferred compensation plans and offering advice with respect to initial adoption and ongoing compliance.
- Preparing health and welfare plan documents and negotiating related contracts.
- Providing advice to ESOP trustees and sponsors regarding transactions involving company stock, as well as ongoing ESOP administration.
Doug was a member of the brief-writing teams for amicus briefs filed in two landmark Supreme Court cases involving employee benefits: National Federation of Independent Business et al. v. Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Health Care reform case), and M&G Polymers USA, LLC, et al. v. Tackett et al. (Case involving retiree medical coverage).
Prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Doug was an associate with Proskauer Rose LLP in the Washington, D.C. office. From 2009-2011, Doug was an attorney with the IRS, Office of Chief Counsel in Washington, D.C.