About Jeff
Jeff Krueger is a partner of the firm practicing in the Employee Benefits practice group. Jeff designs and drafts and advises clients about the administration of tax qualified retirement plans (including defined benefit, cash balance plans, profit sharing, 401(k) and 401(m), money purchase pension plans, and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)), nonqualified deferred compensation plans and cafeteria and welfare plans. Jeff also provides advice regarding tax and fiduciary issues associated with the provision of employee benefits.
Problem-solver with IRS and DOL Regulatory Matters
Jeff routinely advises clients how to address and resolve compliance issues and participant claims associated with the provision of employee benefits. In the qualified retirement plan area, Jeff assists clients in correcting retirement plan defects under the Internal Revenue Service’s Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System and various Department of Labor (DOL) voluntary correction procedures. Jeff has also advised clients about how to respond to IRS and DOL audits of their employee benefit plans. In the nonqualified deferred compensation area, Jeff also counsels clients about the IRS’s correction procedures for Internal Revenue Code (Code) Section 409A violations.
Experienced Benefits Lawyer with Sound Judgment for M&A Transactions and Other Dispute Resolution
Jeff has significant experience advising clients about how to handle employee benefits matters raised by various types of business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions (including transactions involving ESOP owned companies). He has considerable experience advising employers about participation in multiemployer pension plans and resolution of withdrawal liability disputes with multiemployer pension plans. Jeff partners with litigators to assist clients in successfully resolving arbitration and litigation (including class action litigation) under ERISA.
Unique Insights Gained from Experience Serving Various Industries
Jeff represents clients in a wide range of industries, including health care, energy, engineering and architectural services, manufacturing, childcare, retail, forest and food products, and financial services.
Jeff was a legal intern for the Honorable Theodore F. McMillian, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (spring 1996).
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