Peter E. Haller is a partner in the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Department.

Peter advises clients on their employee benefit plans and programs, with an emphasis on the fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction rules under ERISA. He has significant experience with ERISA issues raised by hedge funds, private equity funds and financial institutions and their broker-dealer, asset management and private bank affiliates. Peter represents clients with their prohibited transaction exemption requests before the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefit Security Administration. He has also assisted debtors in bankruptcy on all aspects of employee benefits matters that arise in connection with bankruptcy cases.

Peter chairs the New York City Bar Association subcommittee on ERISA Fiduciary Duties, Private Equity and Plan Investments. Peter also teaches a class with Barry Barbash at Georgetown University Law Center and Howard University Law School on “Regulation of Private Funds with Employee Plan Investors: ERISA”