Partner
Hartford
Email: esharp@murthalaw.com
Phone: 203-772-7772
Fax: 860-240-5747
Download V-Card
Download Bio PDF
Bar & Court Admissions
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Maine
Education
- University of Maine School of Law (J.D., 1998)
- University of Maine (B.A., 1995)
Erek M. Sharp
Erek M. Sharp is a Partner in the firm's Employee Benefits and Labor and Employment Practice Groups.
In his Employee Benefits practice, Erek regularly analyzes, drafts and amends both qualified and nonqualified plan documents. He has extensive experience counseling a diverse roster of clients in connection with plan implementation, compliance and termination-related matters arising under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code and other applicable laws. Erek assists clients in identifying and correcting operational, plan document and fiduciary failures under the EPCRS and VFCP guidelines. He has also negotiated correction methods and related excise tax issues with the IRS and the DOL.
Erek also counsels clients with regard to their fiduciary obligations and has provided advice in connection with prohibited transaction issues and the application of related class or statutory exemptions. In addition, Erek has prepared applications on behalf of clients for individual exemptions.
Erek advises plan sponsors, named fiduciaries, trustees and investment advisers in connection with the investment of benefit plan assets in both traditional and alternative investment vehicles (both domestic and offshore), including plan asset funds, VCOCs and REOCs, and reviews and negotiates the terms of related advisory/service agreements and fund documents. In the fund formation context, he has counseled clients in connection with their fiduciary obligations when operating funds that hold pension assets.
Erek also counsels clients in connection with benefits and compensation issues arising in merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, he has advised clients in connection with the design and implementation of various types of non-qualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements, change in control agreements and severance/separation pay programs and agreements, as well as their reporting and disclosure obligations with respect thereto.
- Connecticut Chapter of the National Institute of Pension Administrators, Board Member
- Mercy Housing and Shelter Corp., Board Member
Erek M. Sharp is a Partner in the firm's Employee Benefits and Labor and Employment Practice Groups.
In his Employee Benefits practice, Erek regularly analyzes, drafts and amends both qualified and nonqualified plan documents. He has extensive experience counseling a diverse roster of clients in connection with plan implementation, compliance and termination-related matters arising under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code and other applicable laws. Erek assists clients in identifying and correcting operational, plan document and fiduciary failures under the EPCRS and VFCP guidelines. He has also negotiated correction methods and related excise tax issues with the IRS and the DOL.
Erek also counsels clients with regard to their fiduciary obligations and has provided advice in connection with prohibited transaction issues and the application of related class or statutory exemptions. In addition, Erek has prepared applications on behalf of clients for individual exemptions.
Erek advises plan sponsors, named fiduciaries, trustees and investment advisers in connection with the investment of benefit plan assets in both traditional and alternative investment vehicles (both domestic and offshore), including plan asset funds, VCOCs and REOCs, and reviews and negotiates the terms of related advisory/service agreements and fund documents. In the fund formation context, he has counseled clients in connection with their fiduciary obligations when operating funds that hold pension assets.
Erek also counsels clients in connection with benefits and compensation issues arising in merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, he has advised clients in connection with the design and implementation of various types of non-qualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements, change in control agreements and severance/separation pay programs and agreements, as well as their reporting and disclosure obligations with respect thereto.
- Connecticut Chapter of the National Institute of Pension Administrators, Board Member
- Mercy Housing and Shelter Corp., Board Member
- January 13, 2022 - Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group News: Plans and Issuers Must Cover the Cost of OTC COVID-19 Tests (If You Can Find Them) by Saturday, January 15, 2022
- August 24, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: IRS Releases Information Letters on Substantiation Rules for Health FSA Debit Cards
- August 5, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: Reminder: Don't Forget to Timely Furnish the Required Notice of Expiration of the ARP COBRA Premium Subsidy Period!
- August 4, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: DOL Issues FAQs on Lifetime Income Disclosures for Defined Contribution Plans
- August 3, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: IRS Issues Additional Guidance on the COBRA Premium Subsidy and Related Tax Credit
- July 30, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: IRS Updates EPCRS Plan Correction Program
- May 14, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: IRS Issues Guidance on the Taxation of Dependent Care Benefits
- April 19, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: DOL Finally Issues Cybersecurity Guidance for Retirement Plans
- Employee Benefits Group News: DOL Issues Model Notices, FAQs and Other Guidance About the ARP COBRA Premium Subsidy
- April 8, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: IRS Says COVID-19 PPE Expenses Are Deductible or Reimbursable Tax-Free
- Labor & Employment Group News: New COBRA Premium Subsidy Law Requires Prompt Action by Employers and COBRA Administrators
- March 18, 2021 - Employee Benefits Group News: A Summary of Key Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act
- March 31, 2020 - Employee Benefits Group News: IRS Extends the End-Date of the Initial Remedial Amendment Period for 403(b) Retirement Plans from March 31, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- March 31, 2020 - Employee Benefits Group News: CARES Act Includes Important Health Plan-Related Provisions
- March 29, 2020 - Employee Benefits Group News: President Signs Massive $2 Trillion Stimulus Package Permitting Retirement Plan Distributions and Loan Relief to Participants Affected by COVID-19 as Well as Waivers of 2020 Required Minimum Distributions
- March 9, 2020 - Employee Benefits Group News: The March 31, 2020 Deadline to Amend 403(b) Plan Documents Looms Large, and Other Remedial Plan Amendment Deadlines Will Follow
- February 4, 2020 - Employee Benefits Group News: The SECURE Act Significantly Changes Many Retirement and Other Employee Benefit Rules
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Maine
- University of Maine School of Law (J.D., 1998)
- University of Maine (B.A., 1995)
