Greg Ossi
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Gregory Ossi resolves labor law issues and ERISA-related litigation matters for clients in the energy production, mining, government contracting, hospitality, manufacturing and construction industries. He counsels employers on a broad range of labor and employee benefits matters such as collective bargaining, mergers and acquisitions, union organizing and retiree healthcare with an emphasis on multiemployer pension withdrawal liability. He also has extensive experience negotiating retirement and healthcare plans pursuant to collective bargaining agreements.
Greg also litigates disputes regarding pensions, health benefits, unfair labor practice charges and labor issues arising from collectively bargained agreements. He has litigated labor and ERISA cases in federal courts in the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Texas, Kentucky and Virginia.
With unique experience as a certified public accountant at a Big Four accounting firm, Greg represents companies addressing collectively bargained obligations, pension liabilities and retiree health benefits under sections 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, magna cum laude, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, 1997
MS, University of Virginia, 1991
BS, Washington and Lee University, 1990
- District of Columbia Bar
- Maryland State Bar
- Virginia State Bar
- Challenged multiemployer pension plan withdrawal liability assessments based on actuarial assumptions, construction exemption, timeliness, evade or avoid and common control.
- Represented companies as special labor counsel and as special benefits counsel in addressing collectively bargained obligations, multiemployer pension liability and retiree health benefits under Sections 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code.
- Worked with medical providers and unions to create drug formularies that reduce prescription drug costs for employers while still providing a valuable benefit to employees.
- Led the effort to completely restructure an employer's health plans, including health and sickness, dental and prescription drug benefits for more than 4,000 employees and retirees.
- Negotiated vendor contracts for a client with more than 50 vendors and more than 300 health and welfare plan designs.
- Handled the delinquent contribution and withdrawal liability claims from 40 multiemployer pension plans as special benefits counsel to a leading packaged food company during its bankruptcy.
- Advised an employer in its assumption of US$2.4 billion worth of long-term union and coal mining liabilities as part of its largest acquisition.
- The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2022-2024; Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2014-2024
- Lawdragon, Leading US Corporate Employment Lawyer, 2024
- Chambers USA, Virginia, Band 3, Labor and Employment, 2009-2014; Up and Coming, Labor and Employment, 2007
- American Bar Association, Jointly Administered Plans Subcommittee of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Section of Labor and Employment Law, co-chair (2017−present)
- American Bar Association, Multiemployer Withdrawal Liability Subcommittee of the Section of Labor and Employment Law, former co-chair
- Energy and Mineral Law Foundations, Trustee 2010−present
- Wilderness Leadership and Learning