Bio

Anthony Antognoli focuses his business practice on the representation of large and mid-size clients in the areas of employee benefits, state and federal taxation, executive compensation, and tax-exempt organization matters. Tony advises employers on the design and drafting of qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, equity compensation plans and welfare benefit plans. He also regularly counsels employers on a broad range of related issues, including multiemployer pension plan withdrawal liability, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), employee benefit plans of tax-exempt or governmental employers (including school district 403(b) plans), educational assistance and other fringe benefit programs, and requirements for the investment of plan assets. He has devoted a substantial portion of his practice to advising employers on complying with 2010’s health care reform legislation and related guidance. He primarily counsels clients on transactional matters, focusing on issues arising in mergers and acquisitions. Tony has served as lead ERISA counsel in a $320 million acquisition of an industrial firm, as co-tax and ERISA counsel in the $90.5 million sale of a managed care firm, and as co-tax and ERISA counsel in the acquisitions of many health care practices. He also has represented clients in controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor and various State Departments of Revenue, and in litigation in the United States Tax Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor of Tax Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Taxation LL.M. program) since 2007.