Jon Schultze

Jon Schultze joined the Wagner Law Group in 2003 and has served as a partner since 2007, specializing primarily in the areas of Employee Benefits and ERISA. Jon advises and represents privately held, publicly traded and tax-exempt clients of all sizes regarding statutory, regulatory, fiduciary, administrative, and operational issues arising out of qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plans and programs and executive compensation agreements.

At The Wagner Law Group, Jon oversees the firm's qualified retirement plan area, which includes ensuring that our clients' retirement plans conform to legal requirements by reviewing existing plans for statutory, regulatory, and fiduciary compliance, as well as drafting and maintaining the firm's preapproved retirement plan documents. Jon also has extensive experience evaluating the feasibility of various qualified plan designs and revising such designs, representing clients in Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation audits, performing due diligence reviews of employee benefit plans and programs in company mergers and acquisitions and establishing and maintaining employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and representing ESOP-owned companies in mergers and acquisitions.

Jon also is responsible for researching complicated employee benefit issues, such as controlled group determinations, plan correction methodologies and plan compliance requirements that constantly change. He routinely analyzes legal and operational plan failures and achieves favorable resolutions through negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation under their respective correction programs, including distress terminations of defined benefit pension plans.

Prior to joining The Wagner Law Group, Jon was an employee benefits and trusts and estates attorney at a Boston law firm and served as a legal assistant, consultant and administrator at two global consulting firms.