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  • videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month February 17, 2026 @ 1:00 PM E.T.
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel ERISA
  • schedule 90 minutes

Structuring Pension, Health, and Welfare Plans for Multinational Companies

Navigating Legal and Tax Implications When Designing Benefits Plans

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE course will offer guidance to employee benefits counsel on the complex legal and tax challenges of designing pension, health, and welfare plans for employers working for multinational companies. The program will discuss the types of employee benefits offered to inpats and expats, key considerations for plan sponsors, and the impact of the OBBBA and other regulations.

Description

Multinational employers are increasingly grappling with employees at cross-border locations as business operations continue to become more global. Multinational employers and their counsel must be versed in the legal requirements and implications of cross-border assignments on employee pension, health, and welfare benefits in order to avoid costly missteps.

Key considerations for multinational employers include determining which corporate entity of the multinational company should fund the benefits plan and/or tender benefits to inpats and expats, taking into account reporting and tax requirements, social security rules, securities laws, joint-employer liability, and other legal issues. In addition, multinational employers must ensure that benefits are clearly and explicitly documented in a written employment agreement to avoid confusion and disputes.

Compliance with federal laws is crucial for employers to avoid penalties and legal repercussions. ERISA, for example, requires employers to provide participants with important information about their retirement and health plans, including plan features and funding. Failure to comply with ERISA can result in fines, lawsuits, and even criminal charges.

Listen as our panel discusses legal considerations and best practices for employee benefits counsel designing pension, health, and welfare plans for inpatriates and expatriates on behalf of multinational companies.

Presented By

Caroline E. Pieper
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ms. Pieper focuses her practice on health and welfare benefit plans, ancillary benefits, and the laws and regulations affecting these plans and related programs. She counsels clients on plan documentation, fiduciary issues, mental health parity, health care reform, COBRA, HIPAA, flexible benefits, wellness programs, price transparency, and more. Ms. Pieper handles legal matters for both fully insured and self-funded plans, she also routinely manages plan administration, design, documentation, and implementation for both single employer and multiemployer plans. Ms. Pieper assists in drafting, revising, and negotiating service provider agreements; ensuring disclosure and reporting compliance to government agencies and individuals; and facilitating both internal and external audits of benefit plans. She further counsels her clients on all HIPAA- and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act-related matters. Ms. Pieper performs client-tailored HIPAA training; drafts, revises, and negotiates business associate agreements; drafts and implements HIPAA policies and procedures; performs breach analyses; assists in breach notification; and ensures compliance with other federal and state laws relating to privacy and security of health-related data.

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, February 17, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM E.T.

I. Trends and developments impacting employee benefits for inpats and expats

II. Legal and tax considerations and best practices for multinational employers designing employee benefits plans

III. Impact of the OBBBA and other regulations

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What types of employee benefits do multinational employers typically offer inpats and expats?
  • What legal and tax considerations should counsel for multinational employers take into account when determining which benefits to offer and how to structure plans?
  • What is the impact of the OBBBA and recent regulations on health benefits for expats?