Neal A. Mancoff
Partner
Neal A. Mancoff has significant experience in all aspects of designing, drafting, and qualifying various qualified and non-qualified retirement plans for large corporate and privately held clients.
These arrangements include:
- Refined benefit plans
- Profit sharing plans
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Section 401(k) plans
- Cash balance pension plans
- Money purchase pension plans
- Bonus plans
- Phantom stock plans
- Profit sharing plans
- Stock appreciation plans
- Stock option and restricted stock plans
Mr. Mancoff deals extensively with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) in qualifying retirement plans and in handling plan audits and investigations.
He works with attorneys in our firm's Litigation Group in connection with disputes involving employee benefit plans; and with attorneys in our Corporate and Securities group regarding securities aspects of such plans. He is familiar with all employee benefits aspects of corporate and financing transactions.
Mr. Mancoff has designed and negotiated:
- Employment agreements
- Consulting agreements
- Severance benefits
- Private pension arrangements
- Golden parachute arrangements for senior executives of large corporate clients
Publications
"Stock Option Gains: A Technique for Deferring Taxation," (December 1998)
"Using Derivatives in Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan Investing," Chapter in the Fiduciary's Guide to Derivative Investment Products manual, Sheshunoff Information Services, Inc.(1996)
Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Arrangements, treatise and semiannual supplement, The West Group (1987)
Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan, treatise and semiannual supplement, The West Group (1983)
"Retirement Plans for Self-Employed Individuals," Chapter in Employee Benefits Handbook, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) (1994)
Awards and Honors
Leading Lawyer — Employee Benefits Law, Illinois Leading Lawyers Network
AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
Education
Northwestern University School of Law
(J.D., cum laude,
1965)
Order of the Coif
Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
University of Wisconsin — Madison
(B.B.A.,
1961)
Professional Memberships
American Bar Association
Taxation Section
Chicago Bar Association
Employee Benefits Committee
Past Chairman
