Michael Powers is a Partner with O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP who focuses exclusively on counseling the Firm’s local, regional, and national multiemployer pension and health plan clients on compliance-related issues. In doing so, he strives to provide practical and understandable legal advice that is designed to solve routine and unusual problems in the most pragmatic way possible.
Michael joined the Firm after earning his Master of Laws in Taxation (LLM) with a Certificate in Employee Benefits Law at Georgetown University Law Center. His practice areas include plan design, drafting and administration, participant communications, reporting and disclosure requirements, fiduciary issues, contract negotiations, prohibited transactions, plan qualification rules, funding rules, ACA, HIPAA and COBRA compliance, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations, health reimbursement arrangements, and the proper tax treatment of fringe benefits.
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