Jeleen Guttenberg works with clients on ERISA, executive compensation and benefits matters. Ms. Guttenberg’s practice focuses primarily on the application of fiduciary responsibility provisions and prohibited transaction rules of ERISA to clients’ businesses and activities. Those clients include managers of hedge funds and private equity funds as well as banks, issuers and underwriters involved in investment management, financings, structured finance transactions and securitizations.

Ms. Guttenberg also advises on compliance issues involving fiduciary responsibility provisions and prohibited transaction rules under ERISA in connection with mergers and acquisitions and ERISA litigation. She has negotiated with the Department of Labor regarding emerging legal issues involving pension plan assets in the context of consolidation and globalization of financial markets.

In addition, Ms. Guttenberg handles executive compensation and employee benefits matters that arise in the context of mergers and acquisitions and disclosure of executive compensation for reporting companies under SEC rules. She advises companies with regard to compensation of executives, including negotiating and drafting employment agreements, severance agreements and equity incentive plans, including those with a need to comply with the California Corporate Securities Law.