Daniel R. Salemi

Dan represents clients in all areas of employee benefits and executive compensation.  He counsels employers on the design, administration and funding of retirement, health, fringe benefit and deferred and stock-based compensation arrangements.  Dan has broad experience with the benefits and compensation issues that arise in litigation and mergers and acquisitions.  He advises clients on issues related to the management and investment of benefit plan assets, including in particular the application of ERISA’s fiduciary and prohibited transaction provisions to retirement plan investments.  Dan also has significant experience negotiating employment agreements on behalf of executives and groups of executives.

Dan started his career at the firm in August 2006.  He then practiced in the employee benefits and executive compensation department at Winston & Strawn LLP for just over 2 years before rejoining the firm in June 2010.  During law school, he was an articles editor for the University of Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.

Dan has authored or co-authored articles that have been published in Employee Benefit Plan Review, Benefits & Compensation Digest, and The Corporate Executive, and has been quoted in PLANSPONSOR magazine.  He also serves as the young lawyer liaison to the Fiduciary Responsibility and Plan Investments Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Employee Benefits Committee (Section of Taxation).

Dan serves as an active member of the Little City Foundation's Junior Board.  He also provides pro bono counseling on benefits and compensation matters to a number of nonprofit organizations in Chicago and elsewhere.