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Michelle Capezza
Counsel

Roseland
Tel: 973.597.6124 | Fax: 973.597.6125


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Michelle Capezza is Counsel in the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group.

Ms. Capezza counsels clients with respect to all aspects of employee benefits law, including:

  • the design, administration, statutory and regulatory compliance of qualified plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, employee welfare benefit plans and equity compensation programs

  • fiduciary duty issues under ERISA and compliance with ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code

  • employee benefits issues that arise in connection with merger and acquisition transactions including treatment of equity awards, change-in-control and golden parachute issues, severance, COBRA and PBGC-related issues

  • negotiation of various types of agreements including employment, severance and release agreements, trust agreements and service provider agreements

  • representation of clients before the Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies

Ms. Capezza began her career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard S. Rebeck, Superior Court of New Jersey (Civil Part). Prior to joining Lowenstein Sandler, Ms. Capezza was affiliated with the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice of a nationally recognized law firm. Ms. Capezza's prior experience also includes serving as in-house counsel to financial institutions that provide retirement products and plan recordkeeping services to their clients.




    		•  Understanding The New Guidance Regarding Split-Dollar Life Insurance Arrangements
    The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, October 2002
    Michelle Capezza
    		• Controlling Guns: A Call for Consistency in Judicial Review of Challenges to Gun Control Legislation
    Seton Hall L. Rev. 1467 Vol. 25, 1995
    Michelle Capezza

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    Corporate
    Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
    Employment & Labor


    Education

    Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D., 1996), Member and Assistant Notes and Comments Editor, Seton Hall Law Review
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (B.A., 1993), Political Science; High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa




    New York
    New Jersey




    2003, U.S. Supreme Court
    1996, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey




    • The Inn of Transactional Counsel, Morris County (2003-present)


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