Mona Ghude assists both publicly-held and private employers with broad-based employee benefit, equity compensation and deferred compensation matters. She is vice-chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group.

Mona’s experience spans a variety of industries, including manufacturing, services and retail industries, as well as special issues relating to union employees (such as withdrawal liability), foreign employees (with respect to participation in U.S. qualified and nonqualified plans) and issues resulting from employee classification (or misclassification). She has also represented high-level executives in negotiating and drafting employment, deferred compensation, change of control and severance agreements.

Mona also counsels on the legality of hedge fund offering documents from the perspective of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and provides training to plan fiduciaries to help them meet their fiduciary obligations under ERISA and to avoid potential prohibited transaction issues under ERISA and the IRC.