Panoramica

With over 30 years of legal experience, Mark J. Grushkin focuses on providing clients with employee benefit services involving mergers and acquisitions, retirement plans, health and welfare plans, and litigation. He has been involved in a wide variety of employee benefits matters, including:

  • Pension
  • Profit-sharing
  • Employee stock ownership
  • Stock appreciation rights
  • Phantom stock plans
  • Welfare and fringe benefits plans
  • Deferred compensation
  • Early retirement programs
  • Severance plans
  • Supplemental executive retirement arrangements

Mark has extensive experience representing employers in disputes and audits with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Labor (DOL), and other government agencies. He has represented large public corporations, small and mid-market companies, healthcare systems, nonprofit organizations, corporate trustees, and single-employer plans. Due to his extensive mergers and acquisitions experience, Mark also represents numerous private equity funds.

Mark offers an employee benefits screening review for his clients, in which he replicates the company’s IRS and DOL audits. Through this analysis, he often discovers significant plan issues which may be advantageously corrected thus avoiding serious tax consequences in the event IRS or DOL audits.

Mark has authored and co-authored articles on:

  • New benefits legislation
  • Cafeteria plans
  • COBRA continuation coverage rules
  • Tax laws and deferred compensation plans

He also has been a speaker and panelist addressing numerous groups on employee benefits, including the Practicing Law Institute, State Bar of California, California CPA Society, American Society of Pension Actuaries, and the University of Southern California Tax Institute. 

Affiliazioni professionali e istituzionali

Member

Employee Benefits Committee Subsection

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Member

Employee Benefits Committee Subsection

Beverly Hills Bar Association

Riconoscimenti

Named, The Best Lawyers in America®

2012-2025

Awarded, AV® Peer Review Rating

Martindale-Hubbell

News, Analysis & Press

Speaking Engagements

Littler Hawaii Breakfast Briefing

Honolulu, HI

June 21, 2024

Secure Act 2.0 Got You Feeling Insecure? Face the 401(k) Challenges and Find Workable Solutions

Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

May 11, 2023

The U.S. Labor Shortage: Employer Responses, Employment Law Challenges

July 29, 2021

2020 Virtual Benefits Symposium: Addressing Issues in the New Normal

October 20, 2020

2020 Virtual Benefits Symposium: Addressing Issues in the New Normal

October 1, 2020

2020 Virtual Benefits Symposium: Addressing Issues in the New Normal

September 3, 2020

2020 Voluntary Retirement and Exit Incentive Programs: A Viable Alternative to Involuntary Layoffs

July 23, 2020

How the Secure Act Will Impact Your Retirement Plans

February 6, 2020

Formazione

  • J.D., Southwestern University School of Law, 1978
  • B.S., California State University, Los Angeles, 1975

Foro di appartenenza

California

Abilitazioni

  • U.S. District Court, Central District of California