Stephen L. Ferszt

Stephen L. Ferszt is a Partner in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, and the Trusts and Estates Practice Groups at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP. As Chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group, he focuses on ERISA and employee benefits matters. He is highly experienced in working with clients on the design, implementation and administration of qualified, non-qualified and welfare benefit plans. He also counsels corporations and executives on executive compensation matters. Mr. Ferszt represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and various state agencies. He advises boards of directors, companies and plan fiduciaries on a wide range of plan administration matters, including voluntary compliance initiatives with the IRS, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the DOL, where he has obtained many correction resolutions for his clients. Mr. Ferszt counsels clients on welfare benefits, including health and life insurance benefits and cafeteria plans. He also assists clients in securing private letter rulings from the IRS. As the Chair of the Trusts and Estates Practice Group, Mr. Ferszt advises clients on estate and succession planning, wealth preservation and transfers, as well as their responsibilities as estate fiduciaries. Before joining TKD, Mr. Ferszt was a Partner at Wolff & Samson PC, where he was Chair of the Employee Benefits/Executive Compensation Practice Group and a member of the Tax and Trusts and Estates Practice Groups. In June 2011, Mr. Ferszt was appointed to serve on the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT). He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he is a member of the Employee Benefits in Estate Planning Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Small Business Council of America; the IRS Northeast Area Pension Liaison Group; the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he has served as Chair of the Tax Section; the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Ferszt also lectures for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the New Jersey State Bar Association and other associations, covering a broad spectrum of topics of interest to attorneys, accountants, third-party administrators and other pension and tax professionals. Mr. Ferszt is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and New York magazine's "Top Lawyers" for both Employee Benefits and Trusts and Estates Law, and he has been recognized in New Jersey Super Lawyers. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Stephen L. Ferszt included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Consistently recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law/Trusts and Estates since 2007 Listed by New York magazine among the “Top Lawyers” for Employee Benefits and Trusts and Estates Law Named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list for 2009, 2013-2023 Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® 5.0/5.0 Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence Named to the New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2009 Awarded “Deal of the Year” and “Activist Campaign of the Year” by The Deal for representation of George Feldenkreis in his nomination of directors and successful unsolicited acquisition of Perry Ellis Other Sources of Feedback About Stephen L. Ferszt Included on the 2025New York Metro Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2021 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2020 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2019 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2015 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2014 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2013 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2009 New Jersey Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Wolff & Samson P.C., Partner

• New York, 1986
• New Jersey, 1986
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1986
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1989
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1989

• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Fellow)
• Small Business Council of America (Member, Legal Advisory Board)
• IRS Northeast Area Pension Liaison Group (Member, Legal Advisory Board)
• New Jersey State Bar Association (Member; Chair, Tax Section)
• New York State Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Past Chair, Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) of the Internal Revenue Service, 2012-2014
• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Employee Benefits in Estate Planning Committee, 2023-2024
• New Jersey State Bar Association, Executive Council of the Taxation Law Section
• Past Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, New Jersey State Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association, Tax Section
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Psi Chi