John T. (Tom) Maloney, Jr. is a partner at the firm. He graduated from law school at the College of William and Mary, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and received the Faculty Award for Exceptional Achievement. Tom received a BA, with honors, from University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tom is the current President of the Hawaii Chapter of the Western Pension & Benefits Conference.

Areas of Practice:
• ERISA Benefits
• Executive Compensation
• Transactional work, including benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions, and defined benefit and defined contribution plan mergers, spinoffs, and terminations.
• Negotiating and drafting contracts and agreements, including master trust, asset custody, and investment management agreements.
• Planning and drafting nonqualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements and working with the intricacies of the deferred compensation rules under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Representing fiduciaries and plan sponsors with respect to benefit claims and ERISA litigation.
• Representing fiduciaries and plan sponsors before the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL"), and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and correcting plan problems under the IRS' and DOL's correction programs.

• Counseling the fiduciaries and administrators of governmental plans, and providing advice to tax-exempt employers with respect to employee benefits and executive compensation.
• Designing and drafting customized tax-qualified plan documents for defined benefit and defined contribution plans and funded welfare benefit plans, including VEBAs.

Affiliations:
• Hawaii Chapter of the Western Pension Benefits Conference

Awards and Recognition:
• College of William and Mary's Faculty Award for Exceptional Achievement
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2008)

Education:
• College of William and Mary (J.D. 1987)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. with honors 1983)

To contact Tom: tmaloney@benefitslawyers.com