Nanette B.Zamost
Partner
Employee Benefits
nzamost@seyfarth.com

Nanette’s practice focuses on advising clients on compliance and administration of pension and welfare plans, primarily in the multiemployer area.
More About Nanette
Nanette has extensive experience with all issues relating to these plans, including plan design and operation, fiduciary responsibilities, contractual relationships with service providers, benefit claims, plan investments and funding, prohibited transactions, plan mergers and asset transfers, and all aspects of compliance with federal and state laws, including PPA, PPACA, HIPAA/HITECH, and COBRA. She has also represented plans in connection with DOL, IRS, and CMS audits and investigations, and other dealings with government agencies concerning plan funding issues.
In addition, Nanette is an experienced ERISA litigator, and has represented benefit plans and fiduciaries in a wide range of litigation matters, including complex cases involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, withdrawal liability, phantom stock and stock option plans, claims for benefits from pension and welfare plans, actions involving service providers, and also in arbitrations involving deadlocked motions of boards of trustees. Nanette also advises employers in collective bargaining over employee benefits and plan-related issues, and has advised groups of trust fund trustees with respect to specific questions upon which they needed individual representation.
In addition, Nanette is an experienced ERISA litigator, and has represented benefit plans and fiduciaries in a wide range of litigation matters, including complex cases involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, withdrawal liability, phantom stock and stock option plans, claims for benefits from pension and welfare plans, actions involving service providers, and also in arbitrations involving deadlocked motions of boards of trustees. Nanette also advises employers in collective bargaining over employee benefits and plan-related issues, and has advised groups of trust fund trustees with respect to specific questions upon which they needed individual representation.
- JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
- BA, Yale University
- California
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Attorney Publication
Feb 21, 2012
Ben Conley, Mitchel Whitehead and Nanette Zamost Published in Benefits Magazine
"Health Exchanges and Multiemployer Plans--Can They Exist in Harmony?" -
Sponsored Events
Nov 4, 2010
Employment Roundtable of Southern California 2010 Annual Fall Conference and Awards Luncheon
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Speaking Engagement
Jun 11, 2008
Effect of Same-Sex Marriage on Benefit Plan Administration
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Firm News
Feb 14, 2008
Seyfarth Shaw Names Seventeen New Partners to the Firm
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
- Contributed the ERISA chapters for Federal Employment Laws and Regulations (FELAR) 2002 edition, and annual updates
- “What to Do With Post-Death QDROs,” International Foundation Benefits & Compensation Digest (September 2006)
- “Health Benefit Exchanges and Multiemployer Plans-- Can They Exist in Harmony?” International Foundation Benefits & Compensation Digest (February 2012)
Nanette’s practice focuses on advising clients on compliance and administration of pension and welfare plans, primarily in the multiemployer area.
More About Nanette
Nanette has extensive experience with all issues relating to these plans, including plan design and operation, fiduciary responsibilities, contractual relationships with service providers, benefit claims, plan investments and funding, prohibited transactions, plan mergers and asset transfers, and all aspects of compliance with federal and state laws, including PPA, PPACA, HIPAA/HITECH, and COBRA. She has also represented plans in connection with DOL, IRS, and CMS audits and investigations, and other dealings with government agencies concerning plan funding issues.
In addition, Nanette is an experienced ERISA litigator, and has represented benefit plans and fiduciaries in a wide range of litigation matters, including complex cases involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, withdrawal liability, phantom stock and stock option plans, claims for benefits from pension and welfare plans, actions involving service providers, and also in arbitrations involving deadlocked motions of boards of trustees. Nanette also advises employers in collective bargaining over employee benefits and plan-related issues, and has advised groups of trust fund trustees with respect to specific questions upon which they needed individual representation.
In addition, Nanette is an experienced ERISA litigator, and has represented benefit plans and fiduciaries in a wide range of litigation matters, including complex cases involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, withdrawal liability, phantom stock and stock option plans, claims for benefits from pension and welfare plans, actions involving service providers, and also in arbitrations involving deadlocked motions of boards of trustees. Nanette also advises employers in collective bargaining over employee benefits and plan-related issues, and has advised groups of trust fund trustees with respect to specific questions upon which they needed individual representation.
- JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
- BA, Yale University
- California
Related Services
Related Key Industries
Blogs
Related News & Insights
-
Attorney Publication
Feb 21, 2012
Ben Conley, Mitchel Whitehead and Nanette Zamost Published in Benefits Magazine
"Health Exchanges and Multiemployer Plans--Can They Exist in Harmony?" -
Sponsored Events
Nov 4, 2010
Employment Roundtable of Southern California 2010 Annual Fall Conference and Awards Luncheon
-
Speaking Engagement
Jun 11, 2008
Effect of Same-Sex Marriage on Benefit Plan Administration
-
Firm News
Feb 14, 2008
Seyfarth Shaw Names Seventeen New Partners to the Firm
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
- Contributed the ERISA chapters for Federal Employment Laws and Regulations (FELAR) 2002 edition, and annual updates
- “What to Do With Post-Death QDROs,” International Foundation Benefits & Compensation Digest (September 2006)
- “Health Benefit Exchanges and Multiemployer Plans-- Can They Exist in Harmony?” International Foundation Benefits & Compensation Digest (February 2012)