Joni L. Andrioff

About

Joni is recognized as a leader in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation law with over 35 years of working in partnership with employers, service providers, and ERISA fiduciaries. She has extensive experience in all aspects of tax-qualified retirement benefit plans, including design, administration, funding, correction, and termination of both defined contribution and defined benefit plans and ESOPs. She also provides counsel on ERISA fiduciary responsibility matters, prohibited transactions, missing participant issues, plan cybersecurity, corporate transactions, and general procedural prudence and governance. In addition, Joni has worked on behalf of employers and executives in negotiating severance, employment and change-in-control agreements, and in implementing deferred compensation and equity-based compensation arrangements, both as ongoing performance incentives and in the context of corporate transactions. She has served in leadership positions in various bar and professional organizations, most recently as president of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, and is admitted to practice law in Illinois and the District of Columbia. Prior to entering private practice, Joni clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

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