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Understanding the ins and outs of Section 409A and its impact on nonqualified deferred compensation plans of for-profit companies and tax-exempt organizations is crucial to your executive and employee benefits practice to avoid the harsh penalties imposed as a consequence of a compliance failure. This book includes: 300 questions and answers, cross-referenced to facilitate reference; Helpful practical hints and pointers; Citations in each answer to direct you into further research quickly; useful checklists and forms, including a document drafting checklist, a performance-based compensation summary checklist, and a summary matrix for operational error correction on pension style 409A plans, as well as an expanded Index. However you interact with Sections 409A and 457—as an attorney, accountant, actuary, compensation and benefits consultant, plan administrator, human resource professional, insurance professional, financial or estate planner, or even as a plan participant—this new edition is for you.

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"Mr. Berglund is a partner in the St. Louis, Missouri, office of Bryan Cave LLP, an international law firm. Mr. Berglund has spent his entire legal career with Bryan Cave, encompassing almost 30 years. He is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group and its Tax Advice and Controversy Group. He primarily represents large employers with sophisticated plans. He routinely counsels clients on tax law (especially regarding Code Section 409A), ERISA, securities law, and other issues relating to the design and structure of most types of executive and employee benefit plans. These include appropriate structures for employment agreements, severance plans, stock options plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, qualified plans, cafeteria and fringe benefit, and other welfare benefit plans. Mr. Berglund is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers. He is a fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Mr. Berglund graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in mathematics from Carleton College in Minnesota and graduated Order of the Coif from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He was an adjunct professor of law at the Washington University School of Law for five years, where he taught a course in the graduate tax program titled Advanced Topics in Employee Benefits."" He has served as president of the Employee Benefits Association of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Berglund frequently lectures on executive and employee benefits and tax-related topics to various law and bar groups. He has spoken regularly at American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) programs, other programs covering executive and employee benefits, and St. Louis and Missouri Bar Association sponsored events. He conducted a lecture titled, Section 409A Corrections Program,"" at a St. Louis Metropolitan Bar Association event in March 2009. Mr. Berglund has written several articles, which have appeared in a number of ALI-ABA program materials, including the Employment Law Journal, Corporate Law Counselor, and St. Louis Bar Association Journal. His article titled, Correcting 409A Violations to Minimize Deferred Compensation Taxes,"" appeared in the St. Louis Bar Association Journal , Winter 2009 edition. Mr. Richey is an attorney by training and currently senior vice-president with McCamish Systems LLC, an Infosys Company located in Atlanta, Georgia. McCamish Systems is one of the nation's leading providers of outsourced administrative and other back-office support services for life insurance carriers and other major financial services organizations, such as banks and brokerage companies. Infosys is a leading global information technology and administration business process outsourcing company. Mr. Richey helps lead the McCamish Retirement Services Group. Mr. Richey is the legal and content expert for all of McCamish's executive, employee and qualified and nonqualified pension benefit web-based marketing, design and plan administration platforms. He has over 30 years' experience in executive and employee benefits compensation consulting, planning and insurance for Fortune 1000 public, closely-held and tax-exempt organizations and their employees. He is the founder of the Retirement Plans Nexus, an organization that designs and implements retirement and benefit plans for companies. At earlier points in his career, Mr. Richey served as a senior marketing officer or technical compensation and senior consultant with American Express Company, the General American Life Insurance Company, William M. Mercer, Magner Network and several offices of the Management Compensation Group (MCG) and M Group. Mr. Richey lectures widely on the impact and implications of Section 409A, executive and employee benefit topics, retirement planning, financial services marketing, insurance, and financial planning. He has lectured at major conferences and institutes, including the New York University Federal Tax Institute, the Southwest Federal Tax Conference, the Notre Dame Estate Planning Institute, the American Society of Actuaries Annual Conference , the LIMRA Advance Marketing Conference, the NACD and a host of other conferences and local meetings. Mr. Richey's comments have appeared in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Forbe's Magazine, and Investor's Daily. He has appeared on the Financial News Network for National Public Radio. He has authored or co-authored a number of books and BNA portfolios, and more than three hundred articles, audios and videos on compensation and tax topics. Mr. Richey is widely known for authoring practice-oriented books, including The 409A Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Advisor (Covered & Exempt Plans Under 409A), 5th Edition, available from the National Underwriter Company, and BNA Tax Management Portfolios #386 4th, and #282 2nd, titled, Insurance-Related Compensation, and Section 409A-The 100 Most Frequently Asked Questions, available from ALI-ABA. Since the enactment of Section 409A, Mr. Richey has authored or co-authored six major articles on Section 409A nonqualified deferred compensation plans and one on Code Section 101(j) requirements governing employer-owned life insurance (EOLI). In the 1980's, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) included one of his published articles in training materials for its estate and gift tax agents and attorneys."

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