Neal S. Schelberg

Proskauer LLP
Neal Schelberg is a partner in Proskauer's Labor and Employment Law Department and a member of its Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Practice Center, is recognized nationally as a leading employee benefits lawyer.  Mr. Schelberg was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor as the Chair of the 2014 ERISA Advisory Council. He appears in the 40 Top Benefits Lawyers in the United States, New York Super Lawyers; the Guide to the World's Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers, and other similar publications.  He was selected by his peers as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and has served as a chair and a member of several committees for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Neal serves as legal counsel to the boards of trustees of over 50 multiemployer and single employer pension and welfare benefit plans.  He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the U.S. in the representation of financially troubled multiemployer pension plans.  He has provided legal counsel to various boards of trustees in industries such as wholesale and retail food and newspaper publishing, whose pension plans were terminated in mass withdrawals with unfunded pension benefits liabilities exceeding $500 million.  He has assessed and collected withdrawal liabilities totaling hundreds of millions of dollars from withdrawing employers.  Neal provides employee benefit advice to the leading newspapers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia in connection with their obligations under the dozens of multiemployer pension plans to which they contribute.  He also advises several leading private equity funds with respect to their investments in companies that contribute to, and have withdraw from, multiemployer pension plans. Early in his career, Neal served as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.  He has taught courses in the Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) program at New York University and has lectured on employee benefits law at Fordham University Law School. Neal is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. 1985) and Hofstra University School of Law (J.D. 1979), where he was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Hofstra Law Review.  He received his graduate (M.A. 1976) and undergraduate (B.A. 1975) degrees from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
 
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