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Lisa M. Kimmel

Partner
Cleveland
T.
216.363.4605
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Lisa focuses her practice on tax, compliance and fiduciary issues relating to qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, executive compensation and deferred compensation plans, transactional work involving transition of benefits and plan mergers and transfers, and dispute resolution including Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Labor (DOL) controversies.

Lisa has more than 25 years of experience as a dedicated employee benefits attorney and has been with Benesch for over 20 years. Her experience includes serving as the first in-house ERISA counsel to a Fortune 200 company headquartered in the northeastern Ohio area, as well as a tax consultant with a big four accounting firm in the Los Angeles office.

In the transactional part of her practice, Lisa has advised clients on benefits matters on hundreds of transactions, including negotiating complex defined benefit plan asset transfers, transition of self funded medical plans and retiree medical benefits, spin offs, and mergers and consolidations of qualified retirement plans.

Representative Experience

  • Represented Wilderness Trail Distillery, a premium artisan bourbon distillery, in the sale of 70% of its membership interests to Campari, a Milan-based Italian Spirits group, for $600 million in enterprise value.

  • Labor & Employment
  • Executive Compensation & Benefits
  • Benefit Plan Funding for Retirement Plans
  • Compensation Plans
  • ERISA Fiduciary Responsibility & Liability
  • Health & Welfare Plans – Strategies & Funding
  • Mergers & Acquisitions of Employee Benefit Plans
  • Retirement Plan Design & Taxation
  • Corporate & Securities
  • Not-for-Profit
  • Bucknell University, 1982, B.A.
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1986, J.D.
  • Ohio
  • AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
  • Listed, Best Lawyers® 2024

Highlights

Kimmel Chambers 2016
Kimmel 2014 Chambers Logo
Martindale AV Rating
Articles and Presentations
January 28, 2022
My Benesch My Team - MAI Capital Management
May 11, 2020
Benesch COVID-19 Resource Center: DOL and Treasury Provide Relief from Certain ERISA Deadlines for Benefit Plans and Participants
News
August 17, 2023
Best Lawyers in America® Rankings 2024
March 20, 2023
Sioux Chief Manufacturing Purchases Combined Cleveland-based Businesses
February 16, 2023
Sequoia Financial Group, LLC set to Acquire Zeke Capital Advisors, LLC

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