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J. Stephen Caflisch

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Mr. Caflisch is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Fiduciary Counselors Inc. He has more than 25 years of experience in employee benefits, including 18 at Fiduciary Counselors.

Mr. Caflisch advises Fiduciary Counselors on all aspects of its work. He is a member of the company’s Pension Risk Transfer Committee, Investment Committee, and Litigation Committee. He takes a leading role in engagements involving annuity purchases, company stock liquidations, stable value funds, and review of settlements for compliance with Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2003-39.

Before joining Fiduciary Counselors in 2005, Mr. Caflisch was an employee benefits consultant at Price Waterhouse, specializing in qualified and non-qualified plans with an emphasis on qualified retirement plans. He handled matters for clients in a wide range of industries, including steel and transportation, that involved complex issues such as compliance, deductions, due diligence in corporate transactions, taxation of distributions, potential liabilities for employee benefits in bankruptcy, funding obligations, PBGC claims, plan termination and restoration, and withdrawal liability.

Prior to his work at Price Waterhouse, Mr. Caflisch was a Special Counsel at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He reviewed significant PBGC filings in bankruptcy proceedings and represented the PBGC in complex litigation and claims. He was on the team that successfully defended the withdrawal liability provisions of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 in nationwide litigation, including before the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Caflisch also has experience in the fiduciary and tax aspects of employee pension plans as a Senior Associate with the law firm of Reed Smith Shaw & McClay in Washington, DC.

Mr. Caflisch received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal. He is admitted to practice law in Maryland and in the District of Columbia.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Steve Caflisch
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Fiduciary Counselors Inc.
One Metro Center
700 12th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 558-5149
Email: stephen.caflisch@fiduciarycounselors.com
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