 BARRY L. SALKIN
Of Counsel / New York
Mr. Salkin's practice concentrates in diversified employee benefits, compensation, ERISA, tax-qualified plans and welfare plans. He has extensive experience in all aspects of retirement and benefit planning, including the design and implementation of retirement plans and executive compensation programs, the use of plan assets to make investments, the design of health and welfare programs, the restructuring and funding of retiree medical benefits, and ERISA litigation, as well as the many benefit issues that can arise in bankruptcies, mergers, and acquisitions.
Mr. Salkin's publications have appeared in The Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance, The Journal of Deferred Compensation, The Journal of Taxation of Investments, the New York State Bar Journal, and the PEO Insider. He is the author and co-author of a number of NAPEO Legal Reviews. He has spoken to not-for-profit entities regarding HIPAA privacy, and to the Chicago Bar Association on fiduciary issues under the Pension Protection Act of 2006. In addition Mr. Salkin was selected in 2006 as a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.
Mr. Salkin received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Rutgers University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American History from Harvard University. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
Prior to joining Olshan, Mr. Salkin was a senior attorney in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation group in the New York office of Winston & Strawn LLP.
BAR ADMISSIONS
1977, New York
1981, U.S. Tax Court
2003, U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
2004, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
MEMBER
Legal Advisory Council of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations
|
|
 |
|
Contact Information |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Practice Areas |
|
|
|
Employee Benefits |
|
|
|
Education |
|
|
|
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1977
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974
M.A., Harvard University, 1969
B.A., summa cum laude, Rutgers University, 1968 |
|
|
|
My News |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My Articles |
|
|
|
Author, "Nondiscrimination Testing Issues: Providing Different Benefits and Features to Employees of a Client Company Under 401(k) and Cafeteria Plans", PEO Insider, May 2008
Author, "The Impact of PEO Arrangements on Business Credits, Deductions, and Other Business Benefits," NAPEO Legal Review, (Volume 5, Issue 8) November 2007
Author, "Deferred Compensation - Final Regs. are Highly Detailed (Part II)" Practical Tax Strategies (September 2007)
Author, "Can Partners and 2 Percent Shareholders in S Corporations Participate in PEO 125 Plans?" PEO Insider (September 2007)
Author, "Application of Choice of Law Provisions in an ERISA Plan," The Journal of Deferred Compensation (Aspen Publishers, Summer 2007)
Author, "Employee Benefit Plans," Chapter 14 of Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business (Law Journal Press, December 2002)
Author, "Incentive Stock Option: Proposed Regs Contain Subtle Changes," Practical Tax Strategies, September 2003 |
|
|
Download vcard