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CherylVanDenHandel

Paralegal

"As a Barclay Damon paralegal, I enjoy working with our attorneys to help clients address their employee benefits and corporate needs in a cost-effective manner."

Overview

Biography

Cheryl has nearly 30 years of experience working with retirement plans and assisting with employee benefits matters. She handles all aspects of retirement plan compliance and administration, including aiding with eligibility determination; calculating employer contributions; performing complex compliance testing; preparing voluntary correction program submissions (VCP); completing annual returns, including late or failure to file annual returns (DFVCP); computing and filing excise tax returns; reviewing domestic-relations orders (QDROs); and drafting plan documents, amendments, summary plan descriptions, and summary annual reports.

Experience

Representative Experience

  • Assisted attorneys in representing the owner, organizer, and producer of a US tradeshow for people with disabilities and the seller in the negotiation and sale of meetings, events, tradeshows, and exhibitions and related digital properties to a UK-based media business.

Prior Experience

  • Hodgson Russ LLP, Senior Paralegal
  • Strategic Benefit Services Health Care Association of New York State, Retirement Plan Consultant/Administrator

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