Legal Opinion
Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 24, 2013No. 12-2312PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This case presents important issues of first impression as to withdrawal liability for the pro rata share of unfunded vested benefits to a multiemployer pension fund of a bankrupt company, here, Scott Brass, Inc. (SBI). See Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendment Act of 1980 (MPPAA), 29 U.S.C. § 1881 et seq. This litigation considers the imposition of liability as to three groups: two private equity funds, which assert that they are mere passive investors that had indirectly…
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