| Biography:
Ira G. Bogner is a partner in Proskauer's New York office. He has been a member of Proskauer's Tax Department and the Firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group since 1990. Ira has provided guidance to clients on a wide variety of matters in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation, including the investment of plan assets; the implementation of employee benefit plans; employee benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions; the awarding of equity-based compensation; and the negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and severance arrangements.
Ira represents a varied list of clients, including financial service companies, entertainment industry clients, and tax-exempt organizations, and also actively represents individual executives in executive compensation matters. Ira provides day-to-day guidance to financial service industry clients handling a variety of projects, such as the design of products targeted to pension funds and IRAs, and the review of fee arrangements connected to the sale of mutual fund shares and insurance products. As a result, Ira has analyzed a wide range of complex ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction issues.
Ira frequently is called on to structure and analyze alternative investments for pension trusts and other exempt organizations. He also works with the Firm's corporate and real estate lawyers in structuring and maintaining investment funds that include participation by pension plans. Through his work in the investment fund area Ira has obtained substantial experience in applying the rules provided under the "plan asset" regulations, including the operation of venture capital operating companies and real estate operating companies.
Ira received a B.A. cum laude from Brandeis University in 1987 and graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 1990. He is a member of the Managed Fund Association's ERISA and Pension Task Force and has served as Secretary, and a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was recognized in the 2007 Corporate and Finance Edition of the US Legal 500, and the 2008 edition of US Legal 500 in both Private Equity Fund Formation, and Tax: Employee Benefit fields. Ira has also been listed in the Metro Edition of Super Lawyers Magazine.
Ira has published a number of articles in publications such as The New York Law Journal, The New Jersey Law Journal, The Daily Deal, The Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance, Mergers and Acquisitions (The Monthly Tax Journal), The Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, European Private Equity & Venture Capital Associations and Private Equity International and has been named to the Board of Advisors of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions. He also has lectured on topics such as the classification of workers; drafting employment agreements; equity alternatives for senior executives; investing IRA assets; post-Enron pension legislation; corporate governance issues; the plan asset regulations; shareholder approval of equity plans; Code Section 409A; and key provisions for ERISA investors investing in a private equity fund.
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