Overview
Diane M. Morgenthaler focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation. She represents clients in matters before the US Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Diane serves as employee benefit counsel to Fortune 500 corporations and other global corporations, and represents both public and private clients. She regularly designs and implements a variety of employee benefit plans and programs. Diane has extensive experience in employee benefit issues involved in acquisitions, reorganizations and divestitures and in the design of employee benefits plans following such transactions. She also advises clients in matters involving multi-employer withdrawal liability, fiduciary liability and benefit claims.
Diane is the senior editor of the Firm’s Employee Benefits Blog.
Results
- Represented a Fortune 500 company in its $8.5 billion tax-free spin-off
- Represented a company in one of the year’s largest private transactions
- Negotiated multiemployer pension plan withdrawal
- Implemented an offshore pension plan for a company’s global expatriates
- Implemented a lump-sum window for a pension plan as part of a company’s de-risking strategy
Recognitions
- BTI Client Service All-Star, 2020
- Chambers USA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, 2017 to 2023
- The Legal 500 US, 2019, 2022 and 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Chicago, 2021 to 2024
- Leading Lawyers 2020 to 2023, Leading Lawyer for Employee Benefits Law
- Law & Politics 2009 to 2015, Illinois Super Lawyer
- Acritas Stars 2020, listed among independently rated lawyers
- Law Bulletin Publishing Company, Leading Lawyer
- Profit Sharing Council of America, shared a national award for redesigning and implementing a client’s retirement program
Community
- Worldwide Employee Benefits Network, past president
Credentials
Education
Boston University School of Law, JD, 1987
Bryn Mawr College, AB, 1983
Admissions
Illinois
