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Overview
Tim's practice focuses on the design, formation, IRS qualification, administration, merger, and termination of employee retirement, health, welfare, and executive compensation plans.
Tim devotes a substantial portion of his practice to evaluating the effect of employee benefit programs on mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, corporate financing, and similar transactions.
Experience
Representative Work
- Advise Employers on executive compensation programs including compliance with new Section 409A.
- Advise UnitedHealth Group, Inc. on employee benefit aspects of its merger and acquisitions including its 2005 acquisition of PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc.
- Advise employers on numerous occasions with regard to the hiring and firing of plan trustees and investment managers, prohibited transaction and fiduciary duty requirements of law, structuring of fiduciary relationships to minimize the legal exposure of the sponsoring employer and its directors, officers and employees and compliance with the ERISA §404(c) participant directed investment regulations.
- Assisted clients in establishing and amending tax all types of tax qualified retirement plans.
- Advise clients concerning Individual Retirement Accounts and distribution planning.
Representative Clients
- UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
- Canon USA, Inc.
- Deluxe Corporation
- Agriliance, L.L.C.
- Lenox Group Inc.
News & Resources
Articles
May 7, 2020
May 22, 2014
May 20, 2010
News & Press Mentions
August 20, 2026
August 21, 2025
August 15, 2024
August 17, 2023
June 24, 2021
August 15, 2018
August 15, 2017
August 15, 2016
August 17, 2015
Events & Speaking Engagements
September 24, 2020
March 11, 2020
November 12, 2019
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017
October 06, 2006 - October 06, 2006
Industries & Practices
- Banking & Financial Institutions
- Benefits & Compensation
- Cooperative Law
- Corporate Governance & Compliance
- Emerging Companies
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Executive Compensation
- Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Nonprofit & Tax Exempt Organizations
- Technology
Accolades
- Best Lawyers in America©, 2013-2026
- Consistently providing pro bono legal assistance to those in need through Dorsey’s Pro Bono program
- Minnesota Monthly, “Top Lawyers in Minnesota,” 2024
- MSBA, North Star Lawyer, 2022-2025
- Global Law Experts, “Employee Benefits Law - Law Firm of the Year in Minnesota – 2016”
