Employee benefits guidance for a broad range of issues

Filip Grzelak provides guidance on employee benefit and executive compensation matters. Among other topics, he advises clients on compliance with the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and Employee Retirement Income Security Act legislation (ERISA). Filip helps clients on a broad range of issues, including:

• Tax-qualified retirement plans
• Health and welfare benefit plans
• Fringe benefits
• Equity and phantom equity compensation plans.

Filip counsels on correction matters before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In addition to compliance and correction issues, he provides support on employee benefit and executive compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Georgia

Education

• University of Florida Levin College of Law (LL.M. in Taxation, 2020)

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette (B.A., 2010)

• University of Miami (M.A., 2013)

• University of Miami School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2019)
  • University of Miami Law Review, senior writing editor and editorial board member

• Deadline for Employers to Comply with Reproductive Health Care Privacy Changes – Dec. 22, 2024 
• Employer Provided Work-Life Referral Programs Considered Nontaxable Fringe Benefit
• Employer’s Duty to Monitor Retirement Plan’s New Investment Advice Fiduciaries
• Final Anti-Discrimination Rule Protecting Gender Identity May Indirectly Impact Employer Health Plans
• Navigating Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) Relief: IRS Notice 2024-35
• Uncertain Future for ACA Preventive Services Mandate

Seminar

• Employer Health Plans: A New Arena for ERISA Fee Litigation