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McClain, Dan

Daniel M. McClain

Dan McClain guides clients through complex employee benefits and executive compensation issues.

Dan handles all facets of employee benefits and executive compensation matters for clients, including multinational public corporations, large and mid-market public and private corporations, private equity funds, portfolio entities, and large tax-exempt organizations, such as universities and hospital systems. Dan is particularly experienced in legal compliance for qualified retirement plans, complex controlled group and similar determinations, documentation and disclosure for qualified and nonqualified plans, executive compensation (including Code Sections 409A, 280G and 457), counseling regarding day-to-day benefits administration and compliance, health and welfare plan matters, and withdrawal liability and other multiemployer plan issues.

Dan also provides benefits advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and lending transactions, including private equity and private fund transactions, as well as analyzing ERISA implications of fund structure and certain operations.

Education
Notre Dame Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2012; Notre Dame Law Review, Notes and Submissions Editor)
Miami University (B.S., magna cum laude, 2009)
State Admissions
Ohio, 2013
Service Areas
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Corporate Law
Private Equity
Industries Represented
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Software
Aerospace Products
  • Represented private equity firms in a portfolio company and follow-on acquisitions, joint venture transactions, and dispositions, including transactions in the communications, manufacturing, software, aerospace and defense, logistics, and health care industries

Speaking Engagements

  • “Executive Compensation Techniques, Tools, and Issues,” Employee Benefits Bootcamp, Northeast Ohio Chapter of Worldwide Employee Benefits and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (June 2021)

Publications

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America (2021–2025)
  • Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Worldwide Employee Benefits Network
  • Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Partner in Justice
  • The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program
  • Notre Dame Club of Cleveland