Edward C. Fensholt, J.D.
Senior Vice President Director, Compliance Services
Edward Fensholt has 26 years of experience as an attorney, 20 years concentrating in ERISA and other aspects of employee benefits law. He has extensive experience regarding: compliance issues under the Tax Code and ERISA with respect to retirement, health and other fringe benefit plans; qualified and nonqualified plan design, implementation and administration; employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions; and a variety of other employee benefits-related matters.
Prior to joining Lockton in 2005, Ed established and led the Compliance practice at Palmer & Cay, a national employee benefits consulting and brokerage firm with 37 offices in 22 states. Prior to that Ed was a managing principal with DeFrain Mayer, an employee benefits consulting firm in Overland Park, Kansas, acquired by Palmer & Cay in June 2000. From 1990 to 1998 Ed practiced law with the employee benefits group of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, a large Kansas City, Missouri law firm. Ed became a partner in the firm in 1996.
Ed received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, earning membership in the Kappa Tau Alpha (journalism) and Phi Alpha Theta (history) academic honor societies. He received his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law, earning membership in the Order of the Coif and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate and served in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a trial attorney and administrative law specialist with the 101st Airborne Division from 1984 to 1988, and with the 1st Infantry Division during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He is a member of the Missouri Bar’s Employee Benefits Committee, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Employee Benefit Committee, the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section, and has served as Vice-Chairman of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA’s Tort and Insurance Practice Section.
Ed is a frequent lecturer nationwide on employee benefits matters, and is a published author of articles on employee benefits issues and other interests.
Current and Previous Positions
Lockton Companies, LLC
- Senior Vice President
- Director, Compliance Services
Palmer & Cay
- Partner
- Director, Compliance Services
DeFrain Mayer
- Managing Principal
- In-House Compliance Attorney
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne
- Partner, Employee Benefits Group
United StatesArmy
- Attorney, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
- Defense Counsel, Trial Counsel, Administrative Law Specialist
Professional Designations
Member of American, Kansas, Kansas City Metropolitan and Missouri Bar Associations
Admitted to practice before Kansas and Missouri Bar, U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Kansas, and United States Army Court of Military Review
Member of Employee Benefits Committees of the American Bar Association (Tax Section) and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Education
BS, University of Kansas
JD, University of Kansas School of Law
