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Ira M. Golub is a Partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department and practices exclusively in the employee benefits area.  The nature of Ira's practice embraces virtually all aspects of employee benefits law, ranging from the establishment and design of pension, profit-sharing, welfare and executive compensation plans to the administration and termination of such programs.

Ira has worked extensively with both single employer and multiemployer pension and welfare funds.  He serves as fund counsel to numerous multiemployer funds in a variety of industries, providing advice to trustees and administrators in connection with the operation and maintenance of the funds.  His understanding of the issues emanating from the operation of multiemployer funds is enhanced by his experience in effecting the termination and mergers of funds and representing contributing employers in disputes with employee benefit plans (addressing such issues as withdrawal liability).  Ira also regularly works with government-sponsored employee benefit plans which are not subject to ERISA.  He has represented multiple clients before the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and has been involved in numerous situations involving bankruptcy and restructuring as it relates to pension underfunding.

Over the years, Ira has developed a particular capability representing plan sponsors and trustees in connection with the full range of fiduciary and other plan asset and investment issues.  He also has a breadth of knowledge with respect to issues related to welfare programs, and is considered a leading authority with respect to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), and Health Savings Accounts (“HSAs”).  He frequently has been involved in providing legal advice to large corporations in connection with reductions-in-force, and with respect to the employee benefit aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ira has published the 2005 COBRA Handbook, a comprehensive text on COBRA.  He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance and is a member of the Board of Editors of HR Advisor.

Ira has been employed by a national actuarial consulting firm and was a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board.

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