Martin J. Moderson
Partner
Martin Moderson has nearly 30 years experience in the employee
benefits area and is chair of the firm's Employee Benefits and
Executive Compensation practice.
In addition to his work with privately and publicly-held
employers, he assists tax-exempt, religious, and governmental
employers in designing, implementing, and maintaining various
employee benefit programs. Martin provides legal counsel on a
full range of employee benefit matters.
His employee benefit expertise includes qualified retirement
plans, tax sheltered annuities, 457 plans, nonqualified deferred
compensation arrangements, executive compensation and insurance
arrangements, statutory and non-statutory stock option plans,
self-insured health and dental plans, disability plans, practice
term life plans, cafeteria plans, dependent care plans, and
tax-exempt trusts.
He has also assisted multinational companies with select
international benefits matters.
Organizations
- American Bar Association
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Presentations
Martin is a frequent speaker on employee benefit topics. Recent
topic presentations include:
- The IRS voluntary compliance programs, employee benefits in
mergers and acquisitions
- Health savings accounts
- Contracting issues for vendors for employee benefit plans
- I.R.C. §409A, and welfare plan changes due to recent
legislation
- He has also led internal training programs for clients on
employee benefits, including COBRA, HIPAA, I.R.C. §409A and ERISA
fiduciary matters.
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