Jeffrey S. Endick

Principal

Jeffrey S. Endick’s expertise includes all aspects of employee benefits law, including ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. Mr. Endick represents a number of multiemployer pension and health and welfare funds, as well as employee benefit plans maintained by tax-exempt organizations. Mr. Endick counsels the firm’s clients in tax aspects of employee benefits, including plan design and the implementation of administrative procedures to comply with the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA. Mr. Endick also has extensive experience counseling clients on the fiduciary rules of Title I of ERISA, particularly in the area of investment management. Mr. Endick has considerable experience in negotiating investment management agreements, including participation in limited partnerships and limited liability companies involving alternative asset classes, such as real estate, hedge funds and private equity. He has represented the firm’s clients before the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He also has experience in litigation and arbitration involving multiemployer pension and health and welfare funds. For example, he was involved in complex litigation involving the payment of retiree health benefits, having successfully negotiated a settlement in which a large, publicly traded corporation agreed to provide retirees with health coverage valued at over $500 million.

Mr. Endick is a magna cum laude graduate of the State University of New York, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Cornell University. Upon graduation, Mr. Endick joined the Office of the General Counsel of the PBGC, where he acquired extensive experience under Title IV of ERISA. Mr. Endick has been in private practice since 1984 representing multiemployer plans and other benefit plans and tax-exempt organizations.

Mr. Endick has co-authored articles about diverse topics such as reporting and disclosure rules, asset reversion, maintenance of cafeteria plans, and other employee benefits issues. He also has spoken at conferences of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and Lorman Education Services. Mr. Endick is a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New York.

Mr. Endick is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York. He is also admitted to practice before a number of United States District Courts and Courts of Appeal.