Bigler, Laura A.

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Laura Bigler practices in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. She has experience in drafting and amending qualified retirement, savings, deferred compensation, and welfare benefit plans as well as advising clients with administration and compliance of such plans with the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA.

Laura also advises employers with employee benefits issues raised in corporate acquisitions and dispositions, including drafting employment agreements and equity incentive arrangements. She has frequent involvement in analyzing potential prohibited transaction and plan asset issues in connection with investments by benefit plans in derivative securities and structured finance transactions.

Laura is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Compensation & Benefits Counseling for Employers
• Corporate Bankruptcies
• ERISA Plan Asset Investments
• Executive Compensation
• Mergers & Acquisitions/Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Private Equity/Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Automotive

Representative Cases

• Blue Point Capital sells Hygenic Holdings , (2009)
• Circuit Check completes sale to Tonka Bay Equity
• Cooper Tire & Rubber Company sells Cooper-Standard Automotive for $1.1 billion
• Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits
• Industrial Growth Partners sells Consolidated Foundries
• Kitchen Collection seeks advice on retirement and welfare benefits
• Morgenthaler acquires assets of Skill Tool & Die
• Morgenthaler acquires Avtron Manufacturing , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires controlling interest in Formed Fiber Technologies
• Morgenthaler acquires Flow Solutions , (2009)
• Morgenthaler portfolio company acquires controlling interest in Martin Color-Fi
• NACCO seeks counseling on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Primus Capital acquires Healthcare Management Systems
• Primus Capital invests in PathGroup and Associated Pathologists
• Primus Venture acquires Focus Receivables Management
• Primus Venture acquires Universal Tax Systems
• Reynolds American seeks advice on retirement and welfare benefits
• Riverside acquires ActivStyle , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Adventures in Advertising in MBO
• Riverside acquires Anitox
• Riverside acquires assets of LocalTel Yellow Pages , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Eemax and Home Heating Products , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Genetic Testing Institute
• Riverside acquires Integrated Motion
• Riverside acquires parent companies of Polar Window of Canada
• Riverside acquires RCS Management
• Riverside invests in PharmMD Solutions, LLC
• Riverside negotiates acquisition of union facility
• Riverside receives consultation regarding independent contractor issues
• Riverside seeks advice about independent contractor issues
• World Kitchen goes into bankruptcy
• World Kitchen seeks benefits counsel

West Practice Categories

Affirmative Action -- Employee, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Bankruptcy Law, Business Organizations, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Cleveland State University
• John Carroll University

Address

North Point
901 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114-1190

Phones

1.216.586.7771 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.216.579.0212 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com