The Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group is dedicated to providing timely and practical advice on all aspects of employee benefits and compensation planning. We regularly counsel clients with respect to tax, ERISA, and practical issues related to establishing, maintaining, administering, and terminating qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plans, health and welfare plans, severance plans, and executive compensation plans and arrangements (both equity and non-equity plans). We routinely assist clients in designing, implementing, and maintaining such plans, and we advise clients with respect to legal compliance and fiduciary issues. We advise clients with respect to employee benefits issues in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other major business transactions. We also represent clients in employee benefits litigation, in obtaining tax and ERISA rulings, and in response to IRS and Department of Labor audits. Our goal is to use our extensive experience to provide practical, creative, and cost-effective solutions to the diverse and complex problems that our clients face in providing competitive employee benefits and compensation.

In addition, we maintain an IRS-approved volume submitter-defined contribution plan. This plan is specifically designed for small and medium-sized employers and can be used for 401(k), profit-sharing, and money purchase pension plans. Use of this volume submitter plan frequently results in reduced IRS fees and legal costs to implement and maintain a qualified plan.

Most states, including New York State, differentiate between business entities organized for the practice of a regulated profession and all other business entities. Scolaro Fetter Grizanti & McGough, P.C. has represented professional practitioners such as accountants, architects, attorneys, engineers, landscape architects, individually licensed physicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, physical and occupational therapists, and other healthcare professionals, their respective practices, and their professional organizations.
As general counsel for most of our business clients, we provide integrated legal representation in the many areas of practice that impact the day-to-day operations of the business as well as in those unexpected complex areas in which clients may find themselves from time to time.

Our Business and Tax Practice Group is composed of business attorneys in varied areas of the law who work closely together to provide our clients with the expertise and resources of a large firm but with the attention, efficiency, and responsiveness expected from a smaller, specialty firm.

Attorneys within the Business and Tax Practice Group are involved in all aspects of corporate governance, including acquisitions, mergers, and reorganizations of the business. We also counsel our clients with respect to contract negotiation, preparation, and dispute resolution for domestic as well as international transactions.

Today’s complex and continuously evolving tax laws require the individual, entrepreneur, and business owner to rely on the assistance of tax professionals who have the experience and knowledge required to effectively counsel them on particular matters. Whether it’s counseling our clients with the acquisition, reorganization or sale of a business, the structuring of an estate plan, or negotiating on their behalf before the State Department of Taxation or the Internal Revenue Service, the attorneys who are members of our Business and Tax Practice Group have earned their reputation for achieving results and peace of mind for their clients.