Employee Benefits

The Firm creates tailor-made and highly responsive benefits packages to meet its client’s objectives. Our attorneys have extensive experience in designing custom retirement plans and guiding clients through the employee benefits process from beginning to end, including profit sharing and 401(k) plans, defined benefit plans, and employee stock ownership plans.

Once a retirement plan has been adopted, we interact with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and other government agencies to ensure the plan complies with federal laws and regulations and will thrive. We also support our clients by offering counsel on plan administration issues and by devising new strategies based on developments in the law.

The SFBBG benefits attorneys bring a range of experience that extends to the non-qualified plan arena as well, to provide non-qualified deferred compensation agreements, stock bonus agreements, phantom stock, “top-hat” plans, and other types of non-qualified deferred compensation agreements and plans. We bring a deep knowledge of the statutory deferred compensation rules and seamlessly guide clients through arduous tax provisions.

The extensive knowledge and experience behind SFBBG’s benefits practice is further supported by the broad resources of our Firm. We offer various supplemental services, including taxation, corporate law, estate planning, and litigation.

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Our team will give efficient counsel for your business and the various things that affect businesses like employment, sales reps, intellectual property, etc.

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Finance

SFBBG is leading the industry in providing excellent counsel for financial services such as banking & creditor rights, estate planning, probate, and trust.

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Litigation

We zealously litigate, arbitrate and mediate. Nothing drives a favorable outcome more than readiness for a smooth and successful trial. We're here to help!

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Real Estate

Our attorneys are trusted counsel and business advisors with a broad range of real estate expertise to serve the firm’s sophisticated clientele.

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News & Updates

Illinois Supreme Court Rules in Favor of SFBBG Client in Defamation Case

Illinois Supreme Court Rules in Favor of SFBBG Client in Defamation Case

On November 21, 2024, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its decision in the case Glorioso v. Sun-Times Media Holdings, LLC, (2024 IL 130137). SFBBG and its attorney Phil Zisook represent the Plaintiff in the case, Mauro Glorioso, the former Executive Director and General Counsel of the Illinois Property Tax Appeals Board (“PTAB”).

SFBBG Prevails in Illinois Appellate Court

SFBBG Prevails in Illinois Appellate Court

On August 9, 2022, SFBBG attorneys, Phil Zisook and Bill Klein, prevailed in an Illinois Appellate Court case where our clients were sued concerning a failed real estate transaction. The proposed transaction involved the transfer of three parcels of real estate consisting of a golf course in Michigan, a Chicago office building, and a River North condominium.