Mr. Maryn has more than 19 years of experience in all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation.
Mr. Maryn routinely counsels clients in the design and administration of qualified retirement plans (including 401(k), profit sharing, ESOPs and defined benefit plans) and welfare benefit plans. Mr. Maryn frequently negotiates administrative services agreements and investment advisory and investment management agreements and counsels plan fiduciaries with respect to their fiduciary responsibilities.
In the executive compensation area, Mr. Maryn represents and counsels both employers and executives in negotiating employment agreements, change of control (parachute) agreements, severance agreements and retention agreements. Mr. Maryn also counsels employers in the design and implementation of nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements (including compliance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code) and equity incentive plans (including stock options, restricted stock, stock appreciation rights, phantom stock, deferred stock and other performance awards).
Mr. Maryn represents tax-exempt organizations with respect to their unique executive compensation issues, including designing and implementing 403(b) annuity plans and 457 plans and advising tax-exempt organizations and their boards concerning all aspects of executive compensation.
Mr. Maryn counsels numerous insurance companies and other institutional fiduciaries concerning their fiduciary responsibilities in connection with product design, sales practices and compensation structure. Mr. Maryn also represents clients in connection with fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction issues involving mergers and acquisition, corporate control and leveraged ESOP transactions.
Mr. Maryn is a frequent speaker and has authored numerous articles on ESOPs, non-qualified deferred compensation plans and employee benefits case law developments.