Lawyers / Professionals

 
Carolyn M. Trenda       
Associate
77 West Wacker Drive
Suite 4100
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1818
T: 312.849.8130
F: 312.849.8131
ctrenda@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Trenda regularly advises employers on a range of benefits matters including qualified and non-qualified plan design and administration, health and welfare issues and compliance matters, including IRS and DOL audits as well as the use of government sponsored correction programs. Specifically, she has assisted clients with drafting and implementing new retirement and welfare plans, restructuring retiree medical programs, terminating employee benefit plans, reviewing executive compensation arrangements and negotiating vendor agreements and trust agreements. She often addresses employee benefits issues during mergers and acquisitions. She has written and presented on a variety of issues, including ERISA fiduciary obligations.


Practices & Industries
Previous Experience
  • Summer Associate, McGuireWoods LLP, Chicago, Illinois, 2001 & 2000
  • Internship, Slaughter and May, London, England, 2001

Publications
  • "Focus on the Fiduciary - Investment Decisions in Light of New Legislative Safe Harbours and Developing Litigation," (Co-authored with Richard L. Menson), International Pension Lawyer, September 2008, Number 63
  • "Taking Corrective Measures: Steps plan sponsors can take to keep their defined contribution plans in compliance with the IRS" (Co-authored with Richard L. Menson), Defined Contribution Insights, March/April 2008
  • "Federal Court Finds Maryland's 'Walmart Law' Preempted by ERISA," (Co-authored with James P. McElligott, Larry R. Goldstein and David F. Dabbs), Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America Executive Report Online, August 9, 2006
  • "Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program Has Been Expanded and Simplified," (Co-authored with Jeffrey R. Capwell), Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America Executive Report Online, April 27, 2005
  • "Department of Labor Issues Guidance on Fiduciary Duties and the Mutual Fund Crisis," (Co-authored with Richard L. Menson), Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America Executive Report Online, March 9, 2004

Speaking Engagements
  • "Navigating ERISA's Fiduciary Responsibilities After Enron," McGuireWoods LLP Employee Benefits Law Conference, 2004

Professional Affiliations
  • American Bar Association
  • Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America
  • International Pension and Employee Benefit Lawyers Association
  • Junior Board Member, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Chicago
 

EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana, J.D., 2002

University of Notre Dame Law School Concannon Program of International Law, London, England, 2000-2001

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, B.A., History, Government and International Studies, cum laude, 1999

  • Phi Alpha Theta
 
 

ADMITTED

Illinois 2002

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois 2002

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Barrington, Illinois