Aryeh Zuber advises clients on the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA and the excise tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, with particular emphasis on section 4975.
Aryeh provides strategic counsel to financial institutions, plan sponsors, trustees, investment managers, broker-dealers, custodians, and investment committees, to ensure compliance with:
He guides fund sponsors on ERISA plan asset considerations within private investment fund operations and structuring fund vehicles to meet these complex requirements. Aryeh regularly counsels issuers, underwriters, and fiduciaries on ERISA-related issues involving annuity providers and collateralized loan obligations, particularly when navigating Department of Labor regulations and prohibited transaction exemptions.
Aryeh also drafts key ERISA-related provisions and opinion letters addressing venture capital operating company (VCOC) and real estate operating company (REOC) status for private investment funds.
With deep proficiency in ERISA, fiduciary responsibility, and IRS and DOL compliance programs, Aryeh is a trusted advisor to financial institutions and investment entities managing fiduciary risk and regulatory compliance.
In the executive compensation space, Aryeh helps public and private companies, firms, and executives design, negotiate, and draft cash- and equity-based incentive compensation, employment agreements, severance, transaction-related, and other executive arrangements in both transactional and non-transactional settings. He has substantial experience advising on executive compensation and benefits in mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, spin-offs, SPACs, and lending transactions, counseling buyers, sellers, debtors, and creditors on complex employee benefits issues.
He also provides comprehensive counsel on a broad range of employment matters, including wage and hour compliance, discrimination, and workplace policy development, drawing on his extensive background in employment litigation and counseling.
A recognized thought leader, Aryeh regularly writes on key industry trends and served as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he taught courses on ERISA.
Thought Leadership
Aryeh’s experience includes advising:
Firm commended for its notable transactional work in infrastructure, energy development, and finance.
Firm recognized by LatinFinance for its work on the Financing Innovation of the Year and Corporate Restructuring of the Year.