Suite 3400
Chicago IL 60606
TEL: 312.786.6174
FAX: 312.986.9192
Practice Areas
- Employee Benefits
- Qualified Retirement Plans
- Non-Qualified Retirement Plans
- Multi-Employer Plan Issues
- Tax Exempt & Governmental Employers
- ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation
- Health & Welfare Benefit Plans
- Labor & Employment
- Union-Related Matters
- Education Law
- K-12 Education
Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, University of Notre Dame Law School, 2002
- B.A., cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1999
Bar & Court Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Andrew A. Malahowski
Andrew represents both private and public sector employers in all areas of employee benefits law. His practice covers a broad range of employee benefits matters, including qualification, administration, and design of defined benefit, defined contribution, and health and welfare plans. He counsels clients with respect to a broad range of benefits matters, including ERISA and Internal Revenue Code compliance, executive compensation, multiemployer plans, cafeteria and flexible spending plans, fringe benefit plans, COBRA, HIPAA and payroll tax issues. He also counsels clients with respect to matters under the Illinois Pension Code. Andrew has also represented clients in a variety of labor law matters including collective bargaining negotiations and discharge and contract interpretation disputes before labor arbitrators.
Andrew joined the firm in May 2005. Prior to joining the firm, he was an attorney at Winston & Strawn LLP (2002–2005).
Andrew has been a contributing editor for the Developing Labor Law (BNA), and has contributed articles for the Employment Law Strategist.
Representative Experience click to view
- Represents private sector employers in qualified plan compliance matters under the Internal Revenue Code
- Assists various private sector employers with ERISA fiduciary, disclosure and reporting obligations
- Provides ongoing employee benefits, payroll tax, Teachers’ Retirement System and Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund advice to more than 40 Illinois public school districts
- Provides counseling for various companies facing multiemployer pension plan liability issues under Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (MPPAA)
- Drafts and provides counseling to both private and publicly traded companies with respect to executive compensation matters and compliance
News
- Franczek Radelet Announces 2012 Partner Promotions
- Health Care Reform: Implications for Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector
- 28 Franczek Radelet Attorneys Named Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
Publications
- New Salary Posting Requirement Takes Effect January 1, 2012
- Amendment to Open Meetings Act Requires Posting of IMRF Employee Compensation
- Senate Bill 1831 Signed Into Law; IMRF Releases Initial Guidance
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